It’s like the hotter cousin of Comic Sans.

I had a Rio, too. That was my first MP3 player and I remember it being a nightmare to sync and use. Mine was slightly larger than the AA battery it took. Had a tiny display and three tiny buttons that you had to press in elaborate codes to get it to do anything.

Nope. You don’t have to buy any food, at all. It’s the bar’s job to make sure their food sales account for at least 45% of their gross alcohol sales. Someone mentioned elsewhere that the rule only applies to liquor, which if true makes it even less of an issue.

In Utah, the burden falls on the customer. Like literally as you described, they won’t serve you a second drink until you buy food. In some restaurants, they won’t let minors in, period. Normal-ass, plain restaurants that you can’t take kids in, becuase THAR BE LIQUOR WITHIN DEM WALLS.

As a born and bred Virginian, NO this is not how it works. These comments are all so goddamn stupid (not you, the people who are misrepresenting these laws for ammunition on their Virginia Sucks tirade). ABC sucks, obviously, but you do NOT need to order food with your drinks, establishments merely have to have some…

Just FYI you, as a patron, do not have to order food with your drink. The establishment just has to offer it. It’s really not a big deal at all, and we have plenty of bars where you can drink for cheap.

That is not what the law says at all. It states that 45% of a restaurants sales have to be made up of food/non-alcohol. You as a customer can order and consume whatever you want to.

That’s not how it works. It’s an overall thing. You can drink and never buy any food if you don’t want it. If you buy $15 in beers, they assume someone else will come in and buy $15 of food and only have sodas. The actual establishment has to sell a certain percentage in food though so many places are bar/restaurant…

No...not at all how it works. You can go anyplace that serves and consume only alcohol if you please. Consumers are not required to purchase food along with drinks...the establishments themselves are required to sell a given percentage of food to alcohol sales to retain their ABC license.

50% is not the rule. It is actually 45% to 55% ratio, food and non alcoholic beverage to alcohol. If you are going to complain get it right.

But there is nothing in the Virginia law that stops you from doing that. You can go into any”bar” or restaurant and just drink if you want to.

Not the case at all. There is no requirement to order food at VA bars. I'm not sure why the OP has thier panties in a twist about bars requiring a food menu. They are not going to force you to eat!

No, it doesn’t fall on the consumer- it falls on the restaurant. So if a restaurant sells $500 worth of alcohol, they need to be selling at least $500 worth of food. So they have things like “Cheese Plate” for $15 and it’s three slices of cheese with a couple crackers.

Yes, the government will almost certainly be the ones required to pay if they lose because they were acting in their professional capacity at the time.

I’m going to have to disagree on the whole “no time” thing.

Or there could be a hidden driveway, or a farm crossing or a hill concealing a semi or any number of other risks that one would reasonably assume could exist due to the existing of a DOUBLE FUCKING YELLOW LINE!

The driver of the car is an absolute and utter shithead, no question, But the motorcyclist is also, to only a…

Calm down, no one is saying the rider got what he deserved. You’re reading into a response that you want to see so you can justify your own outrage.

I don’t know, I see motorcyclists like this and they are reckless, dangerous imbeciles. Plus he had a passenger to boot. Also, I think it’s possible that the driver wasn’t trying to hit him, but scare him, as he swerved over well before the biker got to him, not at the same time as if he was intentionally trying to…

Which one? Seriously, I’m not sure who I think is the biggest asshole in this story. The guy driving his motorcycle like a fucking asshole, putting his girlfriend and every other motorists life in serious danger....or the angry crusty old man who cut in front of him to “teach him a lesson”.

Ah, catfishing. Starts out as a lark, something fun to do while you’re bored, and then next thing you know you’re in England wearing a wool hat and a strap-on.