There’s a headline doing the rounds that’s got everyone fired up: “40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence.” It’s the kind of statistic that makes you want to throw your phone across the room. But before we all collectively lose our minds, we need to talk about something that’s been bugging me for years now – the way survey questions are worded, and how those wordings get spun into inflammatory headlines.

I stumbled across a post the other day that really stuck with me. A bloke in his early thirties, drowning in depression and surrounded by the physical manifestation of it – a studio apartment filled with rubbish, unopened packages, and the crushing weight of money wasted on things he never intended to keep. He’d been quoted three grand by a professional cleaning service he couldn’t afford, and he was asking for help.

Right, so another truck has kissed the Montague Street Bridge this weekend. During the Australian Grand Prix weekend, no less. You’d think with all the precision engineering on display at Albert Park, someone driving a truck through South Melbourne might exercise a similar attention to detail when it comes to, you know, basic height clearance. But no.

For those not familiar with this particular Melbourne institution, the Montague Street Bridge has become something of a local celebrity – not for any architectural merit, but for its uncanny ability to collect trucks like I collect bargain tech deals at JB Hi-Fi. There’s even been a website tracking the days since the last incident, though apparently it got hit harder than the bridge itself (stopped updating in December, though someone mentioned it’s working again now).