Ecke - I think it's a bit of an America thing. It's a country in which those words aren't even allowed on network TV - even after 9pm - and a country in which TV ads for alcoholic drinks are not allowed to show the product actually being consumed. You can toast, you can pour, but you can't drink.
Britain is very different. Admittedly, when every other word is F, things are bad. But even the C word has been aired on TV (Bruce Dern to Jane Fonda in "Coming Home"). I suspect that Germany is more like Britain than America with regard to attitudes towards profanity.
I've been muted once or twice in AH. The first time was when I was gunner in a buff, and I spoke to my pilot privately, expressing exasperation that our enemy had just captured a field. I used the S word. That was when I found out we had a profanity filter.
Another occasion was when I was making an innocuous remark about a female dog. We can talk about male sheep as in deliberate collisions, but not female dogs.
Then I found out that the kiddie Brit word for a young kitten was on the taboo list!
It's funny how some human output words are allowed, and some are not. If the S word is banned, why not the P word? So some guys spell the S word with a C, making a word that means a small bill or account. Why bother? Everyone knows what they want to say.
Still, back when we could do polls on this BBS, I did a poll asking people what they thought of the profanity filter. The vast majority of people voted to leave it the way it is.
