“The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has banned the use of the word “cock” when applied to the male of the species, in case it causes offence. In a move condemned for “taking political correctness too far”, a correspondent on an RSPB online forum was surprised to find that his use of the word “cock”, when referring to a male blackbird, was replaced with four asterisks.“, report The Telegraph.
It’s a good job Blogger doesn’t have a similar set of filters, or my posts would probably read **** and **** but **** if **** like rabid Morse code! 
Spanish compounds this problem. Gallo being the male bird that makes a racket, usually just when you’re drifting off to sleep, while pollo is chicken.
But one must remember not to change the O to A to make this feminine. The girl bird (hen), in both cases is a Gallina, whilst polla is exactly the thing that the RSPB are aiming to avoid! People who ask for salads should too.
The problem wouldn’t come up for a blackbird (mirlo) though, as anything other than a chicken, the male one is a macho, the female an hembra.
Until you get to dogs, of course, where perra, the feminine of perro, still means bitch in both senses. As in, “My female dog and I are a right pair of perras!”
RSPB website bans use of the word ‘cock’
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The times did the obvious tits joke, but what about the shag, the booby, thrush, swallow? There are also many other birds which could one day easily describe some yet to be invented sexual practice:
yellowhammer, finch, nuthatch…
and the frankly disgusting sounding Ring Ouzel..
I’m off for a shower to feel clean again..
LOL! You think there are sexual practices yet to be invented. Obviously, you haven’t visited alt.fetish
But this is so true and if the RSPB were to attempt to filter everything, their entire site would consist of asterisks.
Yes, I like to think that there’s a think tank somewhere in an inoffensive office unit in a deserted industrial estate where there are office workers brainstorming, workshopping, and thinking outside the box, all to create new fetishes and finding innocent sounding words to subvert. They probably exist so as to create a demand for new filters in the latest Microsoft products
Come to think of it, we had sadistic meetings like that - inventing terminology anyway and, most likely subverting something - when I worked for Arthur Anderson in Birmingham!
So that’s how Accountants get their kicks!