To Swear Or Not To Swear

Swearing. Some people choose to punctuate their sentences with Anglo-Saxon vernacular and some choose to go for mild expletives. I can only think of one real proper guttural word that still causes winces when uttered but anything else is pretty much sprinkled about with abandon.
Personally, i go for the mild expletive option but occasionally a word seems to slip out of the real heavy stuff into acceptable usage and lately one word in particular seems to have slipped down the outrageous ranks to everyday vocabulary.
I do not know if the word is used elsewhere, but once upon a time if you called someone a 'Tosser', you could expect at the very least a swift return of verbals.
It seems to of become one of those descriptive words that has lost it's real meaning, like Berk, and although you wouldn't choose to use it in polite company, you could get away with using it elsewhere if you desired, including Sky News which is where i heard it this morning. If it is good enough for Rupert Murdoch's Corporation then it is good enough for me. That Rupert Murdoch, what a Tosser.