George O'Squier
Look back over the past hundred or so years and it's not hard to find particular individuals who have perpetrated acts of varying degrees of shittiness upon humanity.

Several names stand out; Stalin. He was a nasty, nasty little man who killed more of his own people than Hitler did. Then we have people who's actions caused cruelty and hardhip who can be described as either chronically misguided or simply just plain old evil - people like Pol Pot, Pinochet, Kim Il Sung and his demented son, Mugabe, Thatcher, Goering, Himmler, Cowell and Jacqui Smith.

There is however one individual who's legacy continues to inflict pain and suffering on millions of people to this very day, simply because one man callously put human decency aside in the pursuit of profit of the most sordid and miserable kind.

George O'Squier's unholy brainchild was unleashed upon the world in the nineteen thirties and like a good many unholy abominations was championed by no less an organisation than the US Government, who have since gone on to sanction the atomic bomb, torture and regime change. This state sponsored act of evil ensured that O'Squier's demonic product rent despair on pretty much everyone who it's come into contact with. Dwight D Eisenhower himself was one of it's most rabid proponents.

Thankfully, O'Squier died a none too comfortable death succumbing to pneumonia in 1934 having never lived to witness the extent of the misery he wrought upon the good people of the world.

O'Squier's awful legacy?

Muzak.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 4 Feb 2010, 21:57, 2 replies)

Godwin's Law activated.

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 4 Feb 2010, 23:17, closed)

GOD YES!
My parents listened to Easy Listening music every time we got in the goddam car. I used to beg them to turn it to classical music, jazz, anything they wanted to escape the Homogenized String Quartet and the Music School Dropout Chorus.

Dig up the bastard's corpse and CUNT HIM IN THE FUCK!
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 4 Feb 2010, 23:43, closed)