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[bro1]

The same guy that said he could have stopped 9/11 if he was on one of those flights now explains why he is such a bad ass in Pain & Gain:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/mark-wahlberg-pain-and-gain-role-criminal_n_3052895.html

 

[Solo]

He'll always be Marky Mark to me.

 

[Trojita]

Didn't he cripple an Asian guy just randomly on the street?

 

[Andrew.]

He'll always be Dirk Diggler to me.

 

[Artemisia]

At 16, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man on the street and, using a large wooden stick, knocked him unconscious (while calling him "Vietnam fucking shit"). He also attacked another Vietnamese man, leaving him permanently blind in one eye.

Badass indeed.

 

[Darklord]

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

With a dash of civil rights violations.

 

[ComputerMKII]

If you think crime makes you badass, maybe.

 

[rekameohs]

What? No...

 

[FStop7]

Didn't he cripple an Asian guy just randomly on the street?

I guess that's what bad asses do.

 

[Liha]

He'll always be Marky Mark to me.

I thought his real name is Dirk Diggler?

 

[Andrew.]

Didn't he cripple an Asian guy just randomly on the street?

Walhberg gonna Walhberg....unless you're Donnie Walhberg

 

[Aurongel]

Totally forgot about his comments on the 9/11 flights, what an arrogant prick.

 

[AkuMifune]

Mark Wahlberg's a pain in the ass. Gain.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Didn't he cripple an Asian guy just randomly on the street?

Don't forget that his motivation to do so was that the guy was Asian.

 

[Arcteryx]

Didn't he cripple an Asian guy just randomly on the street?

Yea he blinded someone.


Nice guy.

 

[BertramCooper]

Bad? Yes.

Ass? Yes.

Bad ass? Whaaaaat? Nooooo.

 

[rallaren]

So good.

 

[inm8num2]

Mark Wahlberg is the single most overrated Hollywood actor. He sucks at acting and his dbag persona just doesn't jive with me.

And he has a history of being a racist coward.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

say hi to your mother for me

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

Wow, I already didn't like him very much, but I didn't know he blinded someone. Ass.

At fifteen, he harassed a group of black school children on a field trip by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets.

...

 

[J-Rod]

One of my least favorite actors.

 

[Carbonox]

I can't wait to see him headbutt Unicron in Transformers 4.

 

[EdibleExplosives]

He always comes across as such a cunt.

 

[Rubbish King]

Badass indeed.

Were you never 16?


Once a racist always a racist?

 

[Pollux]

such a hardo lol

 

[3N16MA]

I thought his real name is Dirk Diggler?

Nope, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch forever.

 

[inm8num2]

Mark Wahlberg on his past crimes (from 2006, though):

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Oscars2007/story?id=2509542&page=1#.UWW7qsqOXRZ

He harassed a group of African American school kids with racist epithets, and when he was 16, again using racist language, he attacked a middle-aged Vietnamese man and left the man blind in one eye. Wahlberg was arrested for attempted murder, plead guilty to assault, and spent 45 days in jail.

And though the right thing to do would be to try to find the man and make amends, Wahlberg says, he admits he hasn't done so -- but says he's no longer burdened by guilt.

"I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes," Wahlberg says. "You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. I feel good when I wake up in the morning."

Oh look, his charity work includes previously being on Jerry Sandusky's Second Mile.

http://www.buzzonbroad.com/2011/11/andy-reid-dick-vermeil-on-honorary-board-for-sandusky-organization.html

I don't care about celebrities but for the longest time I've just fucking been revolted by this guy. Just a complete and utter douchebag glorified by the media and idiots who think he's a great actor.

 

[Devolution]

Were you never 16?


Once a racist always a racist?

Why is this argument consistently made?

Oh like you didn't blind some guy in his eye at 16, come on.

Plenty of us were decent people at 16.

Makes me wonder about the people who come to their defense.

 

[Artemisia]

Were you never 16?


Once a racist always a racist?

He PERMANENTLY BLINDED a man in an unprovoked racist attack. Don't give me that 'he was 16' mess.

 

[EdibleExplosives]

Were you never 16?


Once a racist always a racist?

I'm pretty sure I knew at 16 not to beat a random person unconscious because of their race, or for any reason at all.

 

[jonnyp]

Mark Wahlberg is the single most overrated Hollywood actor. He sucks at acting and his dbag persona just doesn't jive with me.

And he has a history of being a racist coward.

I concur. He is an awful, awful actor. Can't stand him.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

He'll always be Marky Mark to me.

Always and forever.

 

[Talon]

Shit, I should've used by "Do whatever the fuck you want before I'm 16 Get out of Jail Free" card!

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

I'm pretty sure I knew at 16 not to beat a random person unconscious for their race, or for any reason at all.

Wasn't random, he target his victim due to ethnicity.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

Were you never 16?


Once a racist always a racist?

Yelling racial slurs and throwing rocks at black children? and blinding a person? That's not normal 16yo behavior.

I know I never did anything of the kind when I was 16.

Him becoming famous doesn't forgive that.

 

[bishoptl]

Were you never 16?

Sorry, but that's a fuckwit argument. Plenty of 16 year olds don't act like utter assholes. Just saying.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

Wasn't random, he target his victim due to ethnicity.

Read the next few words of his post.

 

[tomakasatnav]

Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

Read the next few words of his post.

whoops, quoted wrong dude.

 

[Timedog]

I was going to post this:

"Hey you, person right there, I am going to rob you now."

"Hey, aren't you brothers with that News Kids on the Blocks guy? Can you sing that Step by Step song, my daughter loves that!"

"Awww shit. Well you know what? Fuck it. Fuck this. And fuck you. I oughtta 'step by step' when I'm tapdancing on your asshole. I'm fuckin outta here."

"Alright there Marky Mark, keep Hangin Tough. My 7 year old is gonna be so excited that I met you."

but I think instead I'll post this:

We can party on the positive side and pump positive vibes so come along for the ride!

 

[EdibleExplosives]

whoops, quoted wrong dude.

You probably did quote the right person, I just edited it a few seconds after I posted because I hadn't finished the sentence.

Just to clarify, by 'random', I meant someone he didn't know.

 

[inm8num2]

Were you never 16?

At 16 I did things like putting wooden reindeer in people's yards on top of each other to make it appear they were engaging in coitus.

I didn't throw rocks at people of other ethnicity or blind a Vietnamese man for being Vietnamese.

Wahlberg's bad boy douchebag Marky Mark image translated well to attracting a very young audience which is now in their 20s and 30s. It's a shame so few people realize what an incredible piece of shit he seems to be based on his history.

 

[mernst23]

I mean, theoretically, him acting like a little racist psycho at 16 could have no bearing on his current views. But come on, really?

 

[ElectricBlue187]

Why is this argument consistently made?

Oh like you didn't blind some guy in his eye at 16, come on.

Plenty of us were decent people at 16.

Makes me wonder about the people who come to their defense.

We've all been there, beating a innocent guy until be was blind and then totally not caring about it later in life. That's not a horrible psychopathic thing, right?

 

[Sye d'Burns]

The only actor that could possibly have had a chance of preventing 9//11 is James Woods

 

[Stephen Stills]

Talentless, arrogant, racist thug.

 

[inm8num2]

While I don't criticize someone for not feeling ready or capable to perform in a film like Brokeback Mountain, his comments about why he didn't do the movie have always irritated me.

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/02/28/brokeback_mountain_script_creeped_out_ma

"I met with Ang Lee on that movie, I read 15 pages of the script and got a little creeped out. It was very graphic, descriptive - the spitting on the hand, getting ready to do the thing. I told Ang Lee, 'I like you, you're a talented guy, if you want to talk about it more...' Thankfully, he didn't."

The mere notion of this asshole being in that movie is unsettling. And who advised him to not take the role? His Catholic priest.

http://www.irishcentral.com/story/e...-told-him-no-brokeback-mountain-92340764.html

"The 38-year-old reformed bad boy relies on his closest confidante and longtime religious mentor, the Rev. James Flavin, to help him pick and choose his parts. 'Mark is a practicing Catholic, and he never makes a final decision on a starring role until Father Flavin gives his OK,' an insider revealed to The Enquirer.

'Mark says he owes his career to Father Flavin. 'Father Flavin pushes Mark to honor his religious roots,' said the source. 'Even though Mark was offered one of the leads in Brokeback Mountain, he passed because of the gay subject matter, which clashes with Catholic doctrine.'

It all makes sense. The racist criminal asshole turned to religion and became a better person for it.

 

[ksan]

I think him saying that he drives a Maybach on Top Gear tells us all more than enough about him being a bad ass.

 

[SlowRevolution]

He was such a douchebag on Graham Norton's show when he was promoting Ted.