Surely you can think of more offensive phrases than these ones!

Hi Claudia,

I'm not sure of the purpose of the survey, but it will be very subjective. (I assume that's part of it)  I didn't find any of the the swear words particularly offensive, mainly because of the context (it's always 1 to 1 and the person responding to the swearing is also very nonchalant about it) and also because I'm used to hearing much much worse.  My ratings always fell either on 0 or 1 (and I hesitated quite a bit).  Maybe omit the responding person in your future surveys as this may be affecting the survey a bit as well.

A stand-alone phrase might elicit a more thought-out response from the person taking the survey, since they need to take it in their own context and reply from their "gut" rather than being (slightly) influenced be the responding party in the contexts you present.

Hi Claudia 

I agree with some of what Froilan (above) said, particularly as there is a response in most of the questions and 99% of the time, the second party's response implies that no offense was taken.

e.g. No1 "I'd like to smash your fucking face in".  No2 "Go ahead old chap, don't mind if you do".

So I found it rather difficult to take seriously.  More appropriate would have just to outline the scenario (as you do) then rate the one comment as "offensive" relative to the scenario.

I also think (sorry, but I AM trying to be constructive!!) that most of the comments are more "inappropriate" than offensive, particularly in a working environment.  

I marked quite a few as "quite offensive" and a couple "very offensive" - not because of the language being used but because I thought they were totally "inappropriate" given the environment.  

For example, a taxi driver effing about the traffic is neither offensive or inappropriate (if it was a London Cabbie I'd be disappointed if he didn't eff about the traffic!) but a Senior Businessman using the C-word to an Assistant is totally offsensive AND inappropriate.

Hope my "tuppence" helps!

I agree about Rod Stewart

This list gives some usefull insight into the British view of this.  Note how the final two involve swearing but are actually affectionate, whilst a lot of the polite forms of address are actually considered quite offensive.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/simonlewis/35-ways-british-men-can-address-each-other-defined

Filled it in but impossible to give correct answers as the tone is important.  This is a survey a which should really be carried out face to face and by altering the tone you can have two different answers.  Suddenly goddammits appear which are American as far as I am concerned and I have no idea how offensive they are.  there are also some spelling mistakes and some phrases which are not English, some which are American and some which are neither

In fact I found some of the responses more offensive than the phrase that had to be assessed

Unless there is a page that I didnt see there was nothing offensive in the questions. Or am I just too dirty minded.