The Spams, of course, took this nonsense to the extreme. The 'fighter box' became the 'fighter container' and going 'head to head' became 'locker to locker' (as in that vile Spam expression 'snot locker' for nose). Some even used 'cranium' rather than 'head'...
Was that so they didn't upset ze 'box heads'? No, it was allegedly because those words upset some wimmin.
So we told them that a word they frequently used was causing offence to our young ladies. Being Spams, they didn't realise that this was, of course, a UK wind-up. "Very sorry, what word is it that you don't want us to use?"....
"Bush!".
Agree with you concerning the Jeremy Whine programme,
jindabyne!