Talk:Carpet beater

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Until the 1870s, a mattenklopper could be found in most well-kept houses, where it was also used as a implement for physical punishment. It has been largely replaced by the vacuum.

At first glance, this reads like vacuums are used for physical punishment. Gregmg 22:25, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Also at second glance I'd say. Was much better before the rewrite. &lt; K F &gt;  22:28, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

My mom still has a mattenklopper! And a small non-statistical-significant survey among my one roommate confirms his mom has one too. And besides I think they're still more prevalent in the Netherlands than the article suggets.

Fun as the article title is, shouldn't it be at carpet beater? From reading the article, you wouldn't know that they existed outside the Netherlands. 88.107.179.192 23:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree

This device is also known in Belgium (we own one, inherited from an elderly relative)

Jokes about distinctive patterns on the bottoms of children who were beaten make light of child abuse.

Child abuse is a very light subject.

Surely, to leave a distinctive pattern you would have to beat someone quite hard with a solid object? Not that this necessarily has any bearing on the article, although maybe it does. 16:17, 6 December 2005 (UTC) (Skittle)