Yeah, I was in the military myself. I’m very familiar with the CO/XO good cop/bad cop routine.
The way we described it in USAF was that the CO & XO stood back to back as a single mind-melded entity. The XO’s job was to face downwards and run the hierarchy of subordinates, while the CO faced upwards to cater to the needs of the higher-ups.
And this pattern was, or should be, largely replicated all up and down the hierarchy. Even at the low level of an infantry platoon you had the upward-facing Lieutenant and the downward-facing platoon Sergeant.
The higher up the hierarchy, the more sharp the divide between the stuff in the XO’s bailiwick and the stuff in the CO’s.
It wasn’t necessarily good cop / bad cop as such, but for sure if there was bad news, you first heard about it from the XO. And since the CO was your first level of appeal from an XO decision you didn’t like, at least sometimes that’d trigger a reversal of policy. Which contributed to the good cop / bad cop dynamic even if that wasn’t a deliberate plot by the CO/XO mind-meld to foster that dynamic.
My dad was a chief in the Navy so this tracks.
I’ve never been in the military, but I took Navy ROTC in high school and the dynamic even played out there - the “assistant instructor” was a gruff, bullish master chief who’d been in the shit in Vietnam and had joined the Navy to stay out of jail, whereas the head instructor was a kindly, approachable submarine captain who dispensed sage advice.
A retired chief I know says his kids soon learned that he responded quicker to calls of “Chief!” than to calls of “Dad!”
Holy shit, I’m 99% sure this guy worked for our pathology group for a few months this past summer as a temp (traveler) PA.
Sounds like maybe you ought to audit your sample freezers to ensure the stuff your computer says is archived in drawer 43 is still in there. 
“What are you in for?”
“Interstate trafficking in dried toes…”
(cons sidle away in disgust)
“…and a human heart and testicle.”
(cons return, slap Pereyra on the back, congratulate him)
You’d think that the employee with the enviable job of disposing of surgical specimens after they’re no longer needed would’ve wondered about the empty jars and buckets.
Seen in the Stupid MF’s thread, but this is evil:
As I said elsewhere, a “trend” like that is going to get someone killed.
Thunderous Applause!
Seriously, I probably don’t want to know, but what could the motivation possibly be for the buyer? Presumably these are all preserved, so it can’t be cannibalism. I can’t imagine you could commit necrophilia with an assortment of detached bits. Is there some even grosser possibility I’m not thinking of??
They look nice lined up on your coffee table as a conversation piece?
Hmm. I’m sort outta ideas too.
Is there some voodoo or similar BS where a dried toe, or portion thereof is an important ingredient in the witches brew along with eye of newt and wing of bat? Perhaps, like rhino horn, toes represent a perpetually erect form of phallic interest. Such that all truly effective folk aphrodisiacs need some toe to work properly?
All the above is pure speculation without research.
There’s a market.
Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish.
Can I specify polish color or is it potluck?
This might be taking Big Lebowski cosplay a little too far.
My old flame
I can’t even think of her name
(I’ll have to look through my collection of human heads)
- Spike Jones
OK, that guy definitely looks like someone who collects human body parts.
I love this helpful quote from the psychologist interviewed for the Newsweek article:
Someone actively seeking to collect and store body parts in particular is likely to have some deeper psychological issues at play, however, according to Surtees.
Ya THINK?
That’s what you call expert analysis.
Facebook, which just named to its board of directors a man caught on video beating his wife, has decided that calling gay people mentally ill is now A-OK with them.
And the backward slide continues. Another reason to abandon Meta products.