How to swear politely on MN

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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?

Swearing politely is surely like a drunk person who has forgotten their keys trying to be quiet so not to disturb the person they are trying to wake up to let them in the house. Either swear or don’t.

I can see now it would have been less ambiguous if my thread had been titled "How to swear on MN whilst minimising the risk of offending others, like when they bleep out bad words on the telly or blur out stuff on t-shirts, even though everyone knows what the bad words are?" My mistake was obviously to think that "How to swear politely on MN" was a little more succinct without loosing too much meaning.
Sorry for the confusion.