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Depends whether said floor is varnished. If so, yes.

I wholeheartedly apologise for my crude and premature claim that you contribute nothing worthwhile to this forum. I was quite wrong: you bring the half-cocked, pig-headed, alpha-male mindlessness....

I see. The type of floors I am into is more common in the North, Sweden or Norway[/quote]

Ah. Now this is even more interesting. I've never been to Scandinavia, so can't pass judgement. The...

I actually like them -- not the type made of small tiles[/quote]

Now this is interesting. I have always thought that tiles were the way to go with floors. Not wooden tiles, of course; they look...

Hard wood floors are terribly...bourgeois, aren't they?

And bad manners quotes Jim Morrison. Straight out of left-field, that.

Best darned national anthem there is, though.

True enough. Nul grain sans paille, eh, bad manners?

Barbecues are, of course, one of the twin scourges of civilisation, wreathed fully formed and throbbing in the womb of hellish Megaera (and they say there's no place in the modern world for a pouter...

Both of your sentences make perfect sense in English.

'Наш отпуск в Нью Орлеансе был бы лучше, если бы не Щугор болл.'

'Our holiday in New Orleans would have been better if it hadn't been for the Sugar Bowl.'
'But for the Sugar Bowl, our holiday in...