Poll coming in a minute, but don’t let that stop you.
None of your damn business.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Two things I should have mentioned in the OP:
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As the poll options imply, words like nigger count as vulgar speech for this thread.
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I have never in fact asked a Son of the Confederacy to fuck me with his big nigger cock but reserve the right to do so when appropriate.
Land-o-goshen and my stars to heavens. I chose the last option … you big poopy.
About as often as Patton read the bible on his bedstand.
I swear all the fucking time. I have been known to correct those who used minced oaths on social networks (“Did you know you’re allowed to swear on the fucking internet now?”) because I find it a bit affected. A friend of mine from my childhood became a full-fledged, dyed-in-the-wool Mormon, and the thing that struck me first was that he had stopped cursing.
In short, I curse a lot. And I’m not really upset about it. Sometimes when people remind me not to do it in front of children in public, I feel a twinge of guilt. But, fuck 'em. They’re gonna hear it eventually anyway.
It depends on who I’m around.
Around my friends I try to sound like Al Swearengen. Around coworkers I rarely curse.
It’s a talent.
I picked the second option, though that doesn’t really describe my situation. It’s not like cussing is a compulsion that I have to prevent myself indulging. I’m not in a 12-step program or anything.
The general rule is that I never cuss, unless I make a conscious choice to do so, and the word is carefully chosen. And that’s rare.
I try not to fuckin’ judge, but fuckin’ people whose every fuckin’ other fuckin’ word is fuckin’ “fuckin’” come off fuckin’ to me as fuckin’ crude and fuckin’ boorish.
I’m not in settings where theres a lot of swearing bout. So its less conscious, and more habit that I dont very often.
Otara
Maybe you should try a little motherfuckin’ harder.
I was raised in mormonism, so the first thing I did when I left was start cursing like a sailor. Haven’t looked back. 
I view it as taking my cursing power back and I will swear if I fucking well want to. Nevermind all those naysayers who claim that cursing a lot is a sign of no intelligence or lack of creativity. I say you have to be very smart and creative to use “fuck” as any part of speech. Bonus points to the cusser who can work “fuck” into a single sentence as all parts of speech.
Go on. I dare you. Take up the Fuck Challenge.®
Something like this would’ve been nice in the poll since I’d guess a lot of people (me included) choose their swearing rate based on the social mask they happen to be wearing at the moment.
I actually swear a bit more than most of my friends but I cut down a lot when I’m talking to older relatives and the like. Still, Finnish has such great swearwords it’d be a shame not to use them when appropriate. Haven’t seen anything akin to “perkele” in any of the other languages I know for example. I remember using it when I was living in USA and my then-gf said she had no idea what I just said but it couldn’t be anything good.
I swear frequently, but I do not blaspheme. Therefore g-ddamn and its variants are off my plate.
All the fucking time. Or almost all the time. I do have to dial it back at school. My debaters can gauge how pissed off I am by what language I swear in. If I’m muttering in German or Russian, I’m peeved. If I’m using Italian or Spanish, I’m vexed. When I switch to English, duck!
more often when quoting movies
I make an effort not to swear in polite company or professional situations. With my boss or my mother-in-law, for example, I’ll dial it back. Most of the time.
Maybe it’s more accurate to say that I match my language to that of the people I’m speaking with. If it’s a bunch of my friends and we’re talking about a shitty day at work and the bitch in HR making our lives fucking miserable, then I’ll join in happily. But talking to my boss about the woman in HR, I’ll be a whole lot more professional.
I use ‘fucking’ as a comma.
And ‘cunting’ as a semicolon.
I don’t swear out loud very often, but I mumble four-letter words under my breath at least a couple of times a day.