pdgalles wrote:Apologies if the question has been asked but does the captain even exist?
Neck join and head too big for his body?
This is maybe not looking so good for his captaincy (along with everything else...!)-
http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/7feaea8/Agreed, there looks to be a lot of pixel-work around the neck, almost like a delegate's ribbon badge, yes? In the ELA, his left hand (on our right) appears to have the palm
open, unclenched, and a 'ghost thumb' to his extreme left, and there is some fingers foreshortning in the original shot. Left-side picture= "the boxer hands"....Right-side ELA picture="the talking/entreaty hands". There appears to be odd changes around his right hand going by the ELA (is that entire arm added??). The badge looks very 'applied' with the neon fringing, and the map also looks bright and odd. The rank epaulettes are very 'busy' in an added-on manner- even in the photorealistic version, the one on his left shoulder looks adrift, and the spacing between the rank-bars is uneven. Also, his paunch is aglow...!
Comparisons, comparisons....
http://www.navy-la.com/Not a darkened background, but so
naturally neutral when ELA compared with the above, no pixel-crunching: white uniforms against skin for a control; no neckline burn; her name-badge is not a
glowing rectangle of strange; the epaulettes of both these Lieutenant Commanders sit correctly (the "Captain's"left/'port' side one is looking
far too high up to really be attached)
So: comments?
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simonshack wrote:Now, I presume that the origin of this informal, English meaning of "skate" goes way back - long before the Concordia incident!
You may be referring to the idiom "he's skating on thin ice", as in someone who is about to fall into the metphorical water, a fast/evasive/unreliable archetype.
simonshack wrote:....the "Schettino" entity
This forum concentrates a lot on numerology (no, I apologise: it comments upon numerical concidences, shall we say?), and also names: probably rightly so. The name 'Schettino' sounds to TeutonAnglos like sh!t/Scheiße, with the obligatory 'ino' Italianate ending (and Google Translate auto-senses it to being Italian for "roller-skate"!!)[/edit]
[edit again] Sorry, in England, the old traditional slang name for a sailor *is* Skate/skater, I forgot
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=skate....don't ask why!![/edit again]