The Backhander

Every image a story. Subversive storytelling across space, time, and worlds

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A parody of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
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#2001SpaceOdyssey #StanleyKubrickFilm #StarGate #PretentiousFilms #CreativeWriting

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How a Windows update neutralized the BBC's expensive Loch Ness robot
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#LochNessMonster #SpyInTheWild #TechFails #GuyGoma #BBCWild

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12th century Sleeping Beauty dental hygiene
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#MedievalProblems #HistoricalHumor #SleepingBeauty #DentalHorror #MargoRobbie

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American tips in Alexandria trigger the team tax
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#Baksheesh #TheCornicheAlexandria #TippingWatiers #LawrenceOfArabia #TippingAroundTheWorld

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A time when a career in the whimsy required blood, sweat and callused hands
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#EBWhite #1950sStyle #RangerSchool #MasculineExpectations #CharlottesWeb🕸

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Dogeza: Extreme submission... or psychological domination
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#SocialCombat #Dogeza #Omotenashi #空気読めない #PsychologicalWarfare

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土下座：究極の服従……それとも心理支配
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#土下座の殺気 #空気を読め #観光客マナー #おもてなしの闇 #心理殺傷

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Great opening lines in literature
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#FlashFiction #ClassicLiterature #CinematicArt #Storytelling #CreativeWriting

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When you have to out-badass your last few movies
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#JohnWick5 #GurkhaLegend #DipprasadPun #ActionCinema #KathmanduStandoff

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Two nobby London execs face an unexpected linguistic glitch in Shenzhen
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#CorporateHumor #BritishSlang #SocialCombat #PhoneticRealignment #CinematicStorytelling

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Top culinary student gets brutal graduation gift
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#LaFemmeNikita1990 #AnneParillaud #TchekyKaryo #CulinaryInstituteOfAmerica #GlengarryGlenRoss

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Rain-slicked noir crime scene features an absurd shrugging chalk body outline
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#DarkHumor #CrimeScene #Satire #SocialCombat #TheBackhander

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A 1970s print ad parodying vintage talk show drama
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#VintageAdvertising #OliverReed #70sTalkShow #1970sStyle #PrintAdHistory

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When your 1750 B.C. customer service escalation needs a tone check
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#EaNasir #AncientHistory #CustomerService #BronzeAgeProblems #SubversiveStorytelling

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Douchebag celeb opens restaurant
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#JamesCordenRestaurants #BalthazarNYC #86ed #CholesterolBurger #KarenCustomers

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Cinematic elevator ambush parody as a gig economy hazard
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#WorkplaceHazard #GigEconomy #SuperSoldier #DeliveryDriver #WinterSoldier

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Zero-tolerance for workplace romance but no rules against cringey jokes
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#SurrealHumor #OfficeRomance #WorkplaceCulture #MascotLife #SocialCombat

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The frantic save to avoid her bum
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#ElevatorStories #PowerDynamics #BikerDudes #NoPhysicalContact #LawyerStories

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Subversive Westminster satire on bureaucratic social combat
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#YesPrimeMinister #YesMInister #WestminsterHumor #PoliticalSatire #BritishPolitics

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The truth about those cinematic NZ meadows
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#JosephPrince #TheHillsAreAlive🎶 #WaikatoNZ #NZSheeps #SheepGrazing