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[–]Try_it 23 points24 points ago

Is Kurt's fly open?

[–]TwisterAce[S] 19 points20 points ago

Probably. In fact he unzipped his fly when Nirvana received their award.

[–]csfreestyle 20 points21 points ago

Watching that clip makes me miss that era even more.

Except for 4 Non Blondes.

[–]hawklineroar 29 points30 points ago

I SAID HEY

[–]astralplaner16 24 points25 points ago

YEAAAYEAYEAAYEAAAA

[–]champ35640 17 points18 points ago

WHAT'S GOIN' ON?!?

[–]dahlor 10 points11 points ago

[–]Clumpy 0 points1 point ago

Such a wonderful clip.

[–]tblackwood 1 point2 points ago

I'd take it 9/10 over... Skrillex...

[–]warped_and_bubbling 3 points4 points ago

I was going to be clever and find a dub-step remix of "whats goin on" and post it here just to be a snarky asshole..... but then I found some.... oh god why. Excuse me while I go take 12 consecutive showers.

[–]g10tto 0 points1 point ago

Ugh, I miss the era of "Alternative" music.

Everything on the pop stations now is just some rave offshoot that sounds like a song from a few months before.

[–]thatwasntveryraven 7 points8 points ago

That's how pop stations were in the '90s too.

[–]g10tto 1 point2 points ago

I think we're both right to some extent. There was definitely some overlap, as is evident in the OP's photo.

Love your username, by the way!

[–]Clumpy 1 point2 points ago

Yeah, when was the last time anybody thought about Boys 2 Men? The gold of this era will percolate to the surface and it will be remembered in the future as a "classic" era in its own right.

[–]SuperPowers97avert your eyes... 10 points11 points ago

I love how he rode Dave Grohl to the stage.

[–]aquanautic 4 points5 points ago

I love that Krist turned into Miss America and Kurt looked like a 12-year-old bratty brother.

I fucking love Nirvana.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

Oh my god, those videos are so bad! The Nirvana one is really the only decent one.

[–]jakej118 8 points9 points ago

Plush by Stone Temple Pilots, and Feed the Tree by Belly are both good songs.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points ago

But the videos

[–]jakej118 3 points4 points ago

oh.....

[–]tblackwood -2 points-1 points ago

video circa: when music was good

[–]decenthumanbeing 0 points1 point ago

Dude those are button fly jeans....soooo cool back in the day lol.

[–]Biggacheez 0 points1 point ago

Actually it's a button fly...and it's buttoned but that's how they look sometimes with the cover flap isnt doing its job...I had pants like that and hated them

[–]gasburner 0 points1 point ago

I had pants like that in the 90's they weren't so bad, the Ikeda lock-up jeans well lets just say I pissed myself a couple times fumbling with the god damn lock and key. never again...

[–]Biggacheez 0 points1 point ago

Prolly coulda missed out on sexy times as well

[–]chikawhat 19 points20 points ago

Looks like Dave is eyeing a fresh pot.

[–]wruce_bayne 17 points18 points ago

FRESH PAAAAAT!

[–]storch 2 points3 points ago

[–]lagerdalek 113 points114 points ago

Anyone initially read this as Nirvana with Ron Paul?

[–]CarbonKaiser 91 points92 points ago

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[–]notjawn 8 points9 points ago

RuPaul 2012!

[–]PSIKOTICSILVER 24 points25 points ago

Audit the... oh Nevermind.

[–]WarmAppleTart 6 points7 points ago

Are there a lot of layers to your comment, or am I just really tired?

[–]PSIKOTICSILVER 3 points4 points ago

Maybe you're just happy.

I think you're just happy.

[–]TwisterAce[S] 10 points11 points ago

I had a feeling some people would misread the title as that.

[–]Elsie980 4 points5 points ago

I have the opposite problem. Whenever I read Ron Paul I think RuPaul and get super pumped...and then sad that I misread it:(

[–]lagerdalek 1 point2 points ago

I had the same problem when I first became aware of Bill Gates, as opposed to the much more famous (in my young mind) editor of MAD magazine, William Gates

[–]iamzaka 4 points5 points ago

I spent a shameful amount of time looking for him.

[–]nanospecial 2 points3 points ago

Kept looking for him... just wasn't there.

Thought I was going crazy.

[–]S73rM4n 0 points1 point ago

Yep...much confusion was had.

[–]introllect 10 points11 points ago

I can't be the only female who is resentful over how pretty RuPaul is. Gee-sys.

[–]bezenartw 6 points7 points ago

Ru-Paul makes a sexy woman and a handsome man. Jack of all genders if you ask me.

[–]planarshift 1 point2 points ago

Makeup counts for a lot, but you are not alone girl.

[–]Pots_And_Pans 63 points64 points ago

And look, that singer from Foo Fighters is there too.

[–]Genmaken 11 points12 points ago

No, that's the guy from The Muppets.

[–]JessieLandSpotify name 8 points9 points ago

No, that's the drummer for Them Crooked Vultures.

[–]SuperPowers97avert your eyes... 7 points8 points ago

No, it's the guy who sometimes drums for Tenacious D.

[–]NoCommonCents 5 points6 points ago

No, it's the guy guy who sometimes drums for Queens of the Stone Age.

[–]kingbenofgeeks 4 points5 points ago

No, it's the guy who looks like a shiny demon, you know, the one that appears in the middle of the road!

[–]slantedenchanteslantedenchante 1 point2 points ago

No, it's the dude who did some drums on that one Nine Inch Nails album.

[–]joetheschmoe4000Pearl Jam 0 points1 point ago

No, that's Beelzeboss.

[–]workpuppy 5 points6 points ago

I was going with "Man, the guy on the left looks like a young Dave Grohl."

[–]slothenstein 9 points10 points ago

[–]Haikus3n531 17 points18 points ago

She's hot...

[–]Darth_Saltine 7 points8 points ago

I love that Krist and RuPaul are pretty much eye-level with each other.

[–]warped_and_bubbling 8 points9 points ago

I bet this is one of those moments when Kurt was actually kinda happy he was famous. "Look ma! Its fuckin RuPaul! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!"

[–]hitsua 5 points6 points ago

One of RuPaul's lesser known works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apj8vmMrfQA

[–]cornholio1234 32 points33 points ago

quote from kurt, "i'm not gay, but i wish i was just to piss off homophobes"

[–]Shamwow22 0 points1 point ago

Interview With Kurt talking about his experiences with identifying as gay in high school, just to mess with people.

[–]wabbitsdo 4 points5 points ago

Looking fab, Grohl.

[–]calftall 4 points5 points ago

dude they're all so high right now

[–]Spaztic7778 10 points11 points ago

Dave kinda looks like he has a bit of a boner... or that's just perspective :3

[–]blackie197666 0 points1 point ago

I was looking for this comment lol

[–]themizlfoshizl -1 points0 points ago

glad i wasn't the only one who saw wood

[–]Pxtl 2 points3 points ago

Again, every picture of Kurt makes him look like a happy, fun-loving guy. Even ones with his kid, which is obviously well after the supposedly-life-destroying-harpy Courtney had entered his life.

WTF happened?

[–]parlokin 2 points3 points ago

I met Krist Novoselic at a political convention in Las Vegas a few years ago. Really nice and knowledgeable guy.

And RuPaul's 'Drag Race' on LOGO is must-see TV

[–]SuperPowers97avert your eyes... 1 point2 points ago

It seems really hard to imagine him as a nice, knowledgeable guy when he appeared to be a loudmouthed idiot (in a good way) in all of Nirvana's interviews.

[–]parlokin 2 points3 points ago

I think he has always been passionate about politics (along with Cobain, really). But of course he was at ten years post-Nirvana when I met him too.

[–]SuperPowers97avert your eyes... 1 point2 points ago

Yeah. But it's still hard wrap my head around.

[–]Kyle-Overstreet 2 points3 points ago

RuPaul will fit in anywhere she goes. Or even, anywhere he goes. I can't imagine anyone ever hating RuPaul.

[–]humenbean 8 points9 points ago

Kurt and RuPaul look like they haven't aged a day...

[–]Raging_Hippy 7 points8 points ago

Well Kurt didn't get that much older...

[–]Aneds 1 point2 points ago

I love the faces on Kurt and Dave the most.

[–]ccm596 1 point2 points ago

RuPaul looks kind of like a mannequin here, haha.

[–]stilweezy 1 point2 points ago

Anybody else notice grohl's bulge?

[–]oyandake 1 point2 points ago

I love the fact that Krist is almost as tall as Ruru without heels. I love this picture. It is mine now. Thank you.

[–]saltytrey 1 point2 points ago

Kurt has better hair.

[–]JoeInTheBean 1 point2 points ago

huh, surprised no one pointed out that Kurt Kobain's jeans are unbuttoned.

[–]Ontopourmama 0 points1 point ago

Dave seems pretty damn happy to be there.

[–]Borneobound 0 points1 point ago

I'm not sure I want to know why Kurt's fly is open.

[–]Myyke 0 points1 point ago

Before I read the title I thought this was another Reddit Meetup pic.

[–]Shinji_Ikaricygnusx4 0 points1 point ago

Whelp, Dave looks particularly delighted by the encounter.

[–]thunnus 0 points1 point ago

By the look on his face, I'd say Grohl has a handful of RuPaul's nuts.

[–]milkmelk 0 points1 point ago

smells like rainbow colored oreos.

[–]grl_code 0 points1 point ago

TIL RuePaul and I share birthdate... 25 years apart.

[–]hyperboleblues 0 points1 point ago

Cool wallet chain, Kurt.

[–]Shamwow22 0 points1 point ago

The even lesser popular answer to Sublime With Rome.

[–]AccountForDouchery 0 points1 point ago

RUPAUL 2012!!!! FOR LIBERTY!!!

[–]Lilyo 0 points1 point ago

I have no idea who RuPaul is. Should I?

[–]Kyle-Overstreet 3 points4 points ago

Yes. RuPaul is a drag queen; RuPaul is also the name he was born with, and he uses it while doing drag (I will now refer to her with the female pronoun). She is amazing; has made great strides in terms of drag queens appearing in mainstream media. She has done movies (sometimes out of drag), print media, talk shows, written books, and is basically a more likable Oprah. Right now she heads RuPaul's Drag Race (the BEST reality show on TV, IMHO) and Drag U, both on LOGO.

[–]sycoraxfleetlast.fm name 0 points1 point ago

Love the drama on Drag Race. "I'm not here to make best buddies, BITCH. This ain't RuPaul's Best FRIEND Race!"

[–]Kyle-Overstreet 0 points1 point ago

"Tired-ass Showgirl!"

[–]chuckieace -3 points-2 points ago

Wow the drummer from Nirvana looks EXACTLY like the singer and guitar player from the Foo Fighters!

EDIT: bad joke

[–]too_many_penises -2 points-1 points ago

Wow, that drummer does look a lot like Dave Grohl.

[–]yellowdyenumber5 -1 points0 points ago

So many threads with the word "Nintendo" on the FP, that when I saw this one, I saw "Nintendo with RuPaul".