text: freebeer sez agin:
  
  waitaminnit, i've seen nowt but wood on the local benches, so that for me, cement v. cast iron refers to the support from the ground up, which implies locally the profile for bottles or cans of beer and the comfort for me bloated corpse draped over the slats and sagging to the ground.
  
  i am probably failing to interpret the cement as the actual sitting area which would be so uncomfortable that again i'd prefer the ground.  also that i can spread out to take up far more space than offered by a bench.
  
  vagrants'я'us