I'm with you. Even in the cussing military I seldom heard the word. The British seem to have adopted it as just another adjective.

I heard a long time ago that in England back in time if someone (a woman) was unfaithful or did the deed without being married, she got an "F" on her forehead, and it stood for:
FOR
UNLAWFUL
CARNAL
KNOWLEDGE
Equaling = FUCK

Who gives a fuck

Fuck is my favorite word.
It can be used as a noun, a verb, an adjective, and if you're really clever, an adverb.
Depending on context, it can mean anything.
I think using it liberally has probably kept me, and some others, alive.

I recommend getting a dictionary of slang and unconventional English. I remember in the late 1970's while in high school I looked up the word "fuck" and it seemed like there were more than forty definitions given. I grew up in the Los Angeles area, and hearing the word growing up was pretty common, although I did not use the word myself.

I wastold that excessive use of profanity shows a lack of vocabulary. And example of which would be the person(s) who seem to say "fuck" as every other word. It is lazy thinking, as you don't have think much to use the same word(s) over and over again.

However when a person is known to use profanity almost constantly, it loses meaning and lacks emphasis, and the person usually becomes generally angry as people seldom take such persons seriously.

I'm an ex-navy person, with a wide sailor vocabulary . . . My view is that words are nothing more than phonetic sequences, and when people have some emotional reaction to hearing a particular phonetic sequence, the problem is in their head, not yours. I could say curse words in other languages and most Americans would have no reaction whatsoever because they don't know what was said, and as a result have no emotional reaction to it. So in a sense, it can be pretty fucking entertaining to see just how people react to the word fuck. When I say Freighliner trucks are fucking pieces of shit, I mean they are pieces of shit that are frustrating as hell to have to drive. When I say that was a fucking stupid thing to do, I mean it as an intensifier, that it was epically stupid. So in a sense, I see the word as nothing more than an intensifier, used to blow off steam, and assigning some sexual meaning to it is left for the religious people and formalists who get all bent out of shape when they hear it. Obviously there are some situations where it does have a meaning with sexual overtones, but who gives a fuck?

The versatility of the word FUCK.

It has become a very versatile word. For the younger people it is used much like "like" as a placeholder. "Like man, that sure does look like it would be fun!" or "Fuck man, that sure does look like it would be fun!" For many kids, it's a matter of seeing how many times they can say it in every conversation and even more fun when there are older people around who find it crass and annoying to hear!

It is perhaps the most versatile word in the world, emphasising any and all emotions/ feelings. From joy to vitriol. A very descriptive word usable for any scenario. Even opposing ones eg you can do a "fucking good job!", or a "fucking bad job!"
It is funny how it has evolved. A very famous TV presenter in Oz, Graham Kennedy, got banned in the '70's (maybe early '80's) for imitating a crow and going "Faaaaark" on live TV. Something no-one would bat an eyelid over now.

The work “fuck” means “intercourse” to me only when I’m in the bedroom being a bad girl. Outside of that, I use fuck a lot … usually as the equivalent of shit, goddammit, and the like.