Hundreds of French nudists are threatening to "bare all" against burkini-clad bathers in an unlikely showdown at public baths in Grenoble as an ongoing row over the body-covering garment has resurfaced in the heatwave.
The city in southeastern France - which is sweltering in temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius - obliges women to wear one-piece swimming costumes close to the body in swimming pools while men must wear Speedo-style trunks rather than shorts, for hygiene and security reasons.
You can always tell when a European man is at an American beach.
Always.
The burkini ban prompted an act of civil disobedience on the part of burkini wearers, who showed up at the pool en-mass.
French secularists responded the only way they know how, and escalated the situation by counter-protesting naked.
This blog really has no problem with the burkini. Do what you gotta do, man. There's no safety or 'security issue. Speaking as a former pool lifeguard, someone wearing one of those things is no more difficult to rescue than an 18 stone Liverpudlian in a speedo.
[Liverpudlian is it? Why you cheeky Yank - Ed]
Of course if Muslims insist that French mademoiselles have to wear a Burkini or demad segregated swimming hours, well, then, we have a plan.
