The last post might be closer to the truth. Most gyms are pretty strict on wiping down the machines after you've used them (I've always got a hand towel with me for that myself). I've seen the owners of my gym have a word to members for not wiping down the equipment, and they are all generally heavy sweaters.

I say this as someone who identifies as 'from the left', but can't help but feel that those deriding the idea would have supported it had it come from a socialist politician rather than Sarkozy.

The comment from Madam Veil makes no sense to me, “unimaginable, unbearable, tragic and above all, unjust”?

Would she prefer no mention of the holocaust? No mention of the French role? No personification of the victims of What part is unjust? Maybe if she was Roma, I could see it, but what part is so offensive to some with the title: (honorary) president of the Foundation for the Memory of the Holocaust? I don't get it.