May 6. Well, May 7 really.
This thread contains some rather useful information about when pubs can (legally) open. It also states that since we live in Switzerland, we should no longer show an interest in foreign goings-on, but despite having attended the Glocals Swiss politics seminar, Swiss politics is still baffling. Therefore I'm going to have to maintain an interest in the politics of the country in which I maintain citizenship and the right to vote.
But general elections aren't really about exercising democracy, are they. They're about staying up waaaay into the night to watch the counting of the votes. The bar-charts, pie-graphs, and swingometers. And the, ahem, drinking.
The problem is that by the early hours - the time it starts to get interesting - all the bars are going to be shut. So, the question: does anybody know a solution to this? Are any of the pseudo-British pubs going to be open late somehow? Or illegally? A hotel maybe? I seem to recall some latenight thing for the US election, but the exit of Brown and the entry of Obama aren't really comparable on a global scale, so I doubt the motivation is there. If there's a location, then I'll put together some kind of event.
Any ideas?
...keep those neurons pumpin!!! 
