I have no problem with describing any action or inanimate object with a swear word–Kicking that bitch of a desk is fucking stupid!
I have major problems with calling people by cuss words, or for that matter any negative word. People do fucking stupid things. People are rarely fucking stupid.
Indeed, I find that “bitch” just seems…overplayed. It doesn’t help that it’s used both as a somewhat indiscriminate insult towards any form of disagreeable woman, and just a feminine form of “bastard” or “asshole.” I fear it’s burned out.
Not in public with people whose habits aren’t known to me. I’d consider it similar to littering in its offensiveness.
I won’t use any ethnic slurs, it wouldn’t even occur to me to do so, even in a rage.
I don’t say “cunt” out loud ever, but I do use it in my head a lot, but not as a swear, just as a word for my lady parts.
The one I used to say and won’t anymore is “motherfucker”. Since becoming a mother it sort of got rewired in my brain and is too disturbing.
This. Though I might do the c-word if I’m really angry. Like, so angry I can’t control myself. But that doesn’t happen often.
Either all words are fair game or none are. I don’t use certain words because I don’t wish to offend others or because they don’t have any vehemence personally*. But in my head I use whatever words I wish.
*Which is the category ethnic slurs fall under.
ALWAYS keeping in mind who I’m speaking with, I have no problem with the standard four-letter words and their combinations.
But there are two words that I find utterly despicable:
“the N word” and the anti-Chinese slur that rhymes with clink.
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I should have said this as well in my minutes-ago posting.
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ethnic slurs only if I’m in company that will know I’m being sarcastic.
C word only when referring to other guys.
i almost never use c*nt. but i liberally throw out the goddamns. last person that tried to give me crap about it got a healthy explanation of how i wasn’t using anyones name in vain, it was more of a request, and god damn him for wasting my time about it.
I won’t call someone here a khwai (water buffalo). That is a very, very, very serious insult, and unless you’re very, very, very good friends with the person you’re calling that, you will most likely be set upon by a pack of Thais. This would be analagous, I guess, to calling a Navajo a coyote, which I learned from my time in the Southwest was a mortal insult to them.
I can’t bring myself to use racial or ethnic slurs. In fact I can’t even think them. Everything else is fine. Great, even. I love to curse. All the men who consider ‘cunt!’ a fight-winner - I’ve won many an argument by calling them a cunt right back, or even first. 
I was raised in a household where we weren’t even allowed to take the Lord’s name in vain, so I’ve had a lifelong interest in dirty words.
It’s almost a term of endearment in SE England…
I don’t really swear a lot, but, if the hammer hits the thumb or someone’s winding me up I can get unberfuckingbelieviably creative.
As for racial words… my best mate is Italian and I hate to think about how many times I’ve called him a “Fat Eyetie C***”.
Mind you, he is one…