Tonic, thank you so much for your post.
But to find captains yelling around being ridicoulous is a no-brainer. With my post I wanted to hint at the more subtle exageration of a captain's power in every day operation. It's far more common and in the end far more safety-relevant. I know of so many accidents where the CA or the FO didn't want to bring something up, just because they knew that the captain would have put him/her down.
Dani