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View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)I sold floors for a good while. We were told to put vinyl on concrete, if not possible, use hard wood as underfloor. Hardboard can give issues faster. [This was what we used mostly](https://www.houthandelonline.nl/wordpress/b2c/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/spaanplaat.jpg). Cheap enough, hard enough (qualities and hardness differs, yes). I think it translates to particle board.  Do not know the word for it so included the pics. The cheaper the vinyl/pvc, the more it "works", so the less you want to glue it. It may get wrecked. 

I also laid rubber floors. Not for homes, industrial use, gyms, schools, etc. I never was an expert but we could not lay it on floors that were soft because heavy shit would fall and deform the floor under it.

Okay so I sent a former colleague a message. Never use anything too soft. Hardboard is possible but preferably if you glue the vinyl, rough side up for better attachment, also rough side up if you do not use glue, it will slide less, use nails not screws, about every 15cm. Have to have good quality vinyl so it will not shrink and expand too much with temp differences if glued. Hardboard does have the advantage of being a bit sound dampening if this is a concern. Careful with very heavy stuff such as loaded cupboards and very large filled bookcases. You may or may not see a print through the vinyl if you leave it in one spot too long.

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Voodoochilli™ is a registered trade mark ® of Voodoochilli Design Ltd. Version 4.1. Page rendered in 2.62 seconds.While reading the complete works of Shakespeare this year 400 years after his death, I’ve been tracking great moments in the Bard’s strong language. I started with some venereal and vituperative examples in The Taming of the Shrew.
 Jesus Christ, Harry.
Serving as foreshadowing, comic relief, and a kind of cultural middle finger, 3.4 features Princess Catherine, whose betrothal to Harry later unites the kingdoms, in an English language lesson.
Not unlike beginning language classes, Catherine asks her maid, Alice, the English words for various body parts. With an accent, Catherine attempts de hand, de fingres, de nails. De arma, d’elbow, de nick (“neck”), de sin (“chin”), she continues with some corrections from Alice.
Then Catherine gets to some choicer words.
CATHERINE. …Comment appelez-vous “les pieds” et “la robe”?
Shakespeare, as we know, was meant to be seen, not read. Here’s the scene from Laurence Olivier’s famed 1944 film production of the play. Renée Asherson plays a delicate and ingenuous Catherine, Ivy St. Helier, with the bawdy badinage at 02:45.
Now, pardon my French, but foot sounds like foutre, “to fuck,” while cown sounds like con, or “cunt,” among their many other vulgar valences. (I hope our French-speaking readers will weigh in on these words, as I can’t call myself a Francophone.) In spite of her (voiced) consternation, Catherine goes on to repeat the “evil-sounding” de foot and de cown two more times each.
I’m also curious about nick, which my text of the play does not gloss. In the scene, Alice offers it as the English for le col, or “neck.” While generally a kind of “notch,” nick was also once slang for “butt crack” and “vagina” in English. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the former in the 1560s and dates the latter before the 1620s. Shakespeare may well have added yet more texture to our sweary lesson.
How much of the French would Shakespeare’s audience have actually gotten, let alone the cross-linguistic profanity puns? Olivier’s interpretation aside, I imagine Shakespeare’s groundlings guffawed at Catherine’s clumsy efforts at English while nobles snickered at a princess using profanity. And given the historic tensions between the two nations, this laughter may have swelled with a prideful superiority. 
But as far as the actual French is concerned in the play, perhaps the French get the last laugh after all, as I understand Shakespeare’s French is hardly refined. And here at Strong Language, though, our fuck’s are inclusive. English, French, well-formed, poorly formed, princess, peasant, Elizabethan, modern? They’re all profane poetry to our ears.
I knew there was more to Shakespeare than met the eye. Given that there were no actresses in his day and all the parts were played by men that language becomes the story.
Part of the caricture of a French accent is to make all vowels long. Nick therefore becomes “neek” (/ni:k/). Written in french orthography this is “nique”.
In the dayes of olde, when knights were bolde, there was an expression “faire la nique” which was the equivalent of “to cock a snook”, or as Shakespeare has Sampson do in Romeo and Juliet “bite one’s thumb”.
Thanks for the insights, Keith. I agree on the caricatured accent, though I think a pun on “nick” can still be layered on top of it, though we can never be quite sure what the Bard intended. Hooray for textual interpretation! Lane, below, also comments on “niquer,” tracing it to Arabic and says its relatively recent.
Con nowadays is relatively unoffensive in the sense ‘fool’, as is the case for cunt in BrE, whereas in AmE it retains its genital meaning and its full taboo force. In Shakespeare’s day, however, this secondary sense of con probably did not yet exist. In a surgical textbook translated from French into English around 1400, we find the delightful sentence In wymmen þe necke of þe bladdre is schort, & is maad fast to the cunte; I suppose that the original read con. The translator, I should add, had the determinative name of Robert von Fleischhacker (‘meat-chopper’), almost as good as those two quite genuine British urologists, A. J. Splatt and D. Weedon.
That is hilarious, but what does “maad” mean? Is it an older sense of our contemporary “mad”? Or “made”?
From what I am gathering from you and other excellent comments on this post, the punch of “