How to swear politely on MN

[mnmnddddd]

I tried to post something today that included something like "they would have said qwerty you".
Rather than "qwerty" I used four asterisks. I understand some people are uncomfortable with profanity but, for me, the F word was entirely apropriate.
The software seems to have removed the asterisks completely and the phrase appeared as "they would have said you" which is just confusing as a sentence.
How are we supposed to say something like this whilst not offending people and breaking the rules?

You're allowed to say fuck here.

Just say fuck? 🤔

You can just swear. Mumsnet lets you say anything from bloody hell to motherfucker with no censorship required.

I thought we were allowed to swear on Mumsnet, have the rules changed?

You’re allowed to swear - as long as you’re not swearing at a named individual as that can be seen as an abusive post.

Savour it Roy Kent style fuuuuuuuck

Now I'm just fucking confused. If I can say fuck, why the fuck do four asterisks get edited out when I don't want to fucking say it?
(Ooh ... that felt good. Like a therapeutic scream.)

@whataboutme77 Who's Roy Kent?

It’s the formatting since The Latest Big Change.

Asterisks mean empty text in some circs.

Because asterisks are a special character on here that mean 'put the next but in bold until I do another asterisk'

@CocoLePewter The Last Big Change? Has MN gone through the menopause?

Asterisks are used to bold the words in between them. If no words, then it just shows as empty.

Asterisks are part of the formatting code on here, which is why they don't work to express profanities. As pps have said, there's no taboo here on swearing. But if you're personally uncomfortable you could use other random characters - people would get the drift if you typed 'f%^k' or fxxk' for example.

@EauNeu Ah. Now that makes more sense. It confused the asterisk out of me.

This all reminds me of an episode of Battlestar Galactica when, in a fit of rage and needing sexual release, Starbuck screamed at a crew-mate "just frack me!" Comedy gold.

He's a character from Ted Lasso apparently, I had to Google it.

ted-lasso.fandom.com/wiki/Roy_Kent

I had to Google Ted Lasso.
#toooldforpopularculture

Hello @mnmnddddd you're quite welcome to swear so long as it's not a personal attack. The asterisk on MN is code to make things bold like this

If you really can't bring yourself to then adding asterisk within the word will work if it's just the one word. Eg: F**k.

T**t

w**ker

@YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet is on a f**cking roll!

Don't forget a*e, boocks, ct, dk eing, fk, gt, and now I'm stating to struggle...

Almost all of which didn't fucking! Arrrrgh! 💩

(Fucking work) 😭
And I can't edit posts either? 😭😭😭