[irremediable]

What did people use before brushes?

(I love that the user complaining about curling minutiae has the username "stan_rogers", by the way. Possibly the most Canadian thing ever.)

[stan_rogers]

Proper brooms, as opposed to push brooms. You might occasionally see a skip using one just to call shots these days. It took a lot of effort to sweep effectively with a corn broom.

(I can sing all of his stuff as a party piece, but I had the name a long time before he became famous, and Stan is a really common name in my family going back many generations. Probably related if you go all Mormon on the genealogy, but that's more effort than fun.)