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In my personal experience, this is 100% correct.
There is a person, who I know through being a boy racer in Essex, who now drives tipper trucks, he used to be an Ambulance driver. The company he works for sent him and some other drivers on one of the courses where they ride bikes in London so they can see how it feels to ride a bike, generally considered to be quite a positive influence on HGV drivers from what I understand. He posted on fb after his day that he'd had a good laugh, even though a lot of the day was just spent laughing at themselves as fat HGV drivers breaking a sweat just trying to have a gentle pedal around the city, he really felt he'd learnt how it feels to be "a cyclist" and how buses and HGVs pass you really closely even though you're not "being a cunt". The first couple of comments were really positive and congratulatory on his experience, and then it just descended into red lights, zebra crossings, and name calling. I feel like if he hadn't said anything to anyone else he'd have had a really good takeaway from his experience and modified his driving, but instead he basically got peer pressured back into the illusion that all cyclists are cunts. Then the tits got posted.
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Baz will get told by Darren to stop being such a cunt to cyclists in the company van, Baz will say "yeah, sorry Daz" then they'll both moan about cyclists for half and hour and talk about some women's tits they saw earlier that day.