The splash on the front page of The Courier-Mail today (Friday) has caused a rather bitter debate among the already bitter, washed-up, hacks who compile this column.

Some thought it was quite appropriate. Cheeky. Sex sells. Everyone loves a double entendre or four. Just a bit of harmless fun. Others thought it was disgraceful. Said one: “When the Courier moved from a broadsheet all those years ago, they promised a ‘quality compact’. This is just trashy tabloid bullshit.”

So what do you think, BUGgers? If it gave you a good laugh and an excellent start to the day by reminding you of some of the really top roots you had in your young wild-oats-sowing days, press the left button on your computer mouse now or tap the left hand side of your tablet, laptop or mobile. Suspect it damages even further whatever might remain of the paper’s reputation as a serious metropolitan daily, then right click on your mouse two times or tap the right hand side of your tablet, laptop or mobile twice as well.

We’ll share this snap poll’s results later.

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Sticking with The Curious-Snail, our column compilers suspect this front-page from a few days ago confirms many of their views that modern journalists don’t care much for the meaning of words any more. Just use the suckers any way you want to make a point. Or just as a creative, colour, writing tool.

We’re referring to this!

What fucking moral victory! Some of the visiting Ashes players broke the rules by riding e-bikes without helmets and they were let off with a warning. Even unimportant, non-celebrity, locals sometimes get a warning too.

How the fuck could any journalist worth their salt use “moral victory” in this yarn’s jockey line. Did the tourists perform unexpectedly well? Was dodging a fine a defeat or failure? Should they now be admired for the way they stoically defended their principles? Some fucking principle: The right to break traffic rules?

The saddest part is that the three scribes who shared the by-line for this yarn wouldn’t have seen any problem at all in what the sub-editor did here. You’d need a solid overall knowledge of the English language and what words and phrases mean to be able to do that.

Or is “moral victory” another victim of the never-ending evolution of the English language? Will our column compilers simply have to hunker …. sorry, bunker has largely taking over! … bunker down on a golf course somewhere and accept they are indeed bitter, twisted old hacks with long-passed use-by dates?

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