The secret MVP of sports? The port-a-potty
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He is a survivor of bacterial meningitis, which caused him to have multiple amputation surgeries on his feet.
他是细菌性脑膜炎的幸存者，这导致他的脚接受了多次截肢手术。
He is a proud advocate for those with disabilities and addiction issues.
他是残疾人和成瘾问题人士的骄傲倡导者。
He covers everything from the NFL and UFC to pizza-chucking and analysis of Tom Cruise's running ability.
他涵盖了从 NFL 和 UFC 到吃披萨和汤姆·克鲁斯跑步能力分析的所有内容。
Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print IT'S 12:31 P.M., and Ben Cansdale has been staring at five port-a-potties for a half hour.
现在是中午 12 点 31 分，本·坎斯代尔 (Ben Cansdale) 盯着五个便盆看了半个小时。
Cansdale is a member of a five-truck Modern Disposal Services crew, based in Buffalo, that is dispatched on game days to do what they call a "half-suck" when a home game kicks off.
坎斯代尔是布法罗一支由五辆卡车组成的现代处置服务团队的成员，该团队在比赛日被派去进行主场比赛开始时他们所谓的“半吸”工作。
From the driver's seat, Cansdale, 31, describes the mayhem that is about to happen once the Nov.
31 岁的坎斯代尔坐在驾驶座上，描述了 11 月 12 日之后即将发生的混乱。
21 Bills-Colts game begins in 30 minutes.
21 比尔队与小马队的比赛还有 30 分钟就开始了。
As he talks, drunk people wobble past, pointing and waving at him.
当他说话时，喝醉了的人摇摇晃晃地走过，指着他，向他挥手。
One woman stands in front of the truck and tries to get Cansdale's attention so she can take a picture of him.
一名女子站在卡车前，试图引起坎斯代尔的注意，以便为他拍张照片。
She laughs and points like he's a carnival exhibit, but Cansdale shrugs it off.
她笑着指出他就像是嘉年华的展品，但坎斯代尔对此不屑一顾。
"People treat us like a joke sometimes," he says.
“有时人们把我们当作一个笑话，”他说。
"But I take great pride in doing my job.
“但我对自己的工作感到非常自豪。
I don't think these people want to see what happens if we're not here, cleaning up after them."
我认为这些人不想看到如果我们不在这里清理他们之后会发生什么。”
Cansdale's job isn't glorious, but sports couldn't happen without people like him.
坎斯代尔的工作并不光荣，但如果没有像他这样的人，体育运动就不可能发生。
From college football cathedrals on Saturdays to raucous NFL stadiums on Sundays, with thousands of kids' soccer fields in between, the port-a-potty is an unsung hero for most outdoor sporting events in the U.S. If you trace the rise of big-time sports in America and the boom of the port-a-potty business over the past 50 years, it's like the two things are dancing together.
从周六的大学橄榄球大教堂到周日喧闹的 NFL 体育场，中间有数以千计的儿童足球场，便盆是美国大多数户外体育赛事中的无名英雄。如果你回顾过去 50 年来美国大型体育运动的兴起和便盆业务的繁荣，就会发现这两件事正在一起跳舞。
The portable bathroom business is at $17 billion and rapidly growing, largely because of the constant need at sporting events.
便携式浴室业务价值 170 亿美元，并且正在快速增长，这主要是因为体育赛事的持续需求。
And that makes toilet cleaners like Cansdale essential workers at our nation's sports fields.
这使得像坎斯代尔这样的厕所清洁工成为我们国家运动场的重要工人。
He doesn't have time to let his pride take a hit, anyway.
无论如何，他没有时间让他的自尊心受到打击。
A half-suck is the Olympics for the Modern crew -- the six men, riding in five trucks, have about 90 minutes to take care of 196 port-a-potties spread over the public parking lots outside Highmark Stadium.
对于现代队来说，奥运会是一个糟糕的事情——六名男子乘坐五辆卡车，有大约 90 分钟的时间来照顾分布在海马克体育场外公共停车场的 196 个便盆。
For each port-a-potty, Cansdale must replace two rolls of toilet paper from a latched holder, suck out as much as possible from inside the bowl and clean the seat with water and a scrub brush.
对于每个便盆，坎斯代尔必须从锁紧的支架上更换两卷卫生纸，从便盆内尽可能吸出卫生纸，并用水和刷子清洁座椅。
He gives a quick hand sanitizer check but has never had to refill one at a Bills game.
他会快速检查洗手液，但在比尔队的比赛中从未需要补充洗手液。
"The truth is, nobody's washing their hands," Cansdale says.
“事实是，没有人洗手，”坎斯代尔说。
"They just want to get in and get out."
“他们只是想进去然后出去。”
The Modern drivers call it a "half-suck" because the goal is speed and just to get the stalls usable for after the game.
现代车手称其为“半烂”，因为目标是速度，只是为了让摊位在比赛后可用。
They'll do full sucks and total cleans starting Monday morning.
从周一早上开始，他们将进行全面吸吮和彻底清洁。
The half-suck math is daunting: At about 40 toilets per guy, with people streaming in and out of the port-a-potties as they try to do their jobs, the cleaners will have less than three minutes per toilet, all while trying to navigate giant trucks through tiny windows of crowded parking lots.
这个半糟糕的数学计算令人望而生畏：每个人大约有 40 个厕所，人们在工作时进出厕所，每个厕所的清洁工只有不到三分钟的时间，同时还要努力驾驶巨型卡车穿过拥挤的停车场的小窗户。
On top of that, the weather report says some wicked Buffalo wind and rain is about to roll in right around kickoff today, with temperatures expected to drop down into the 30s.
最重要的是，天气预报称，今天开赛前后，布法罗将迎来恶劣的风雨，气温预计将降至 30 多度。
About 10 minutes before kickoff, Cansdale opens the truck door, and there's a light in his eyes.
开球前大约 10 分钟，坎斯代尔打开卡车门，他的眼睛里闪烁着光芒。
"It's go time," he says.
“是时候出发了，”他说。
"Buckle in, this is going to be a wild, smelly ride."
“系好安全带，这将是一次狂野、恶臭的旅程。”
THE FIRST PORTABLE bathroom is believed to have been invented by the ancient Egyptians around the 14th century B.C.
据信，第一个便携式浴室是由古埃及人在公元前 14 世纪左右发明的。
It was discovered in the Kha tomb and was simply a wooden stool with a hole in it and a piece of pottery underneath for collection.
它是在卡墓中发现的，只是一个木凳，上面有一个洞，下面有一块可供收藏的陶器。
The concept of mobile restrooms evolved slowly over the years, with centuries of civilizations essentially just doing small tweaks on the chamber pot.
多年来，移动厕所的概念慢慢演变，几个世纪的文明本质上只是对夜壶进行了一些小小的调整。
The need for portable bathrooms rose in the late 1800s as more and more American jobs drifted into large-scale mining and building projects.
1800 年代末，随着越来越多的美国工作岗位转向大型采矿和建筑项目，对便携式浴室的需求不断增加。
An abandoned copper mine in northern Michigan from the turn of the 20th century was recently discovered in remarkably preserved condition, including a wooden box that had been used by miners as their underground bathroom.
最近在密歇根州北部发现了一座 20 世纪之交的废弃铜矿，保存得非常完好，其中包括一个曾被矿工用作地下浴室的木箱。
For miners and construction workers who desperately needed bathrooms while on the job all day, finding a tree or a wooden box often was the best they could do 100 years ago.
对于整天工作时迫切需要卫生间的矿工和建筑工人来说，100 年前，找到一棵树或一个木箱往往是他们能做的最好的事情。
That changed around 1940, when the first formal port-a-potties were developed for World War II ships docked off the California coast.
1940 年左右，情况发生了变化，当时为停泊在加利福尼亚海岸的二战舰艇开发了第一个正式的便盆。
The new ships didn't yet have bathrooms, so supervisors grew frustrated at the productivity loss from workers leaving to find facilities on shore.
新船还没有浴室，因此主管们对工人离开去岸上寻找设施而造成的生产力损失感到沮丧。
They built temporary early port-a-potties, made with a wooden outer shell and a large metal storage tank underneath a wooden toilet seat.
他们建造了临时的早期便盆，由木制外壳和木制马桶座下方的大型金属储水箱制成。
The concept of port-a-potties spread quickly to construction sites in the coming years, then to fairs, festivals and sporting events.
在接下来的几年里，便盆的概念迅速传播到建筑工地，然后传播到集市、节日和体育赛事。
It's impossible to overstate how seismic the addition of portable bathrooms has been to society, especially sports.
便携式浴室的增加对社会，尤其是体育运动产生了多大的影响，怎么形容都不为过。
"Large public gatherings for sports, especially football, have become an integral part of our society only over the past 75 years or so," says Dr. Laura Walikainen Rouleau, a social sciences senior lecturer at Michigan Tech and author of an upcoming book, "Private Spaces in Public Places." "You couldn't do that without an evolution of the bathroom that included portable facilities."
密歇根理工大学社会科学高级讲师、即将出版的新书《公共场所的私人空间》的作者劳拉·瓦利凯宁·鲁洛 (Laura Walikainen Rouleau) 博士表示：“大型公共体育活动，尤其是足球活动，在过去 75 年左右才成为我们社会不可或缺的一部分。” “如果没有包括便携式设施的浴室的发展，你就无法做到这一点。”
But in interviews with bathroom experts -- yes, there are brilliant minds devoted to the topic -- and even port-a-potty companies themselves, it's remarkable how little of portable bathroom history has been recorded.
但在对浴室专家（是的，有很多专门研究这个话题的聪明人）甚至便携式厕所公司本身的采访中，值得注意的是，便携式浴室的历史记录很少。
"That's a reflection of how people view and treat port-a-potties as a whole," says Alison K.
“这反映了人们对便盆的整体看法和对待方式，”Alison K.
Hoagland, author of "The Bathroom: A Social History of Cleanliness and The Body." "They're a last-ditch, worst-case-scenario moment for most of us.
霍格兰，《浴室：清洁与身体的社会史》一书的作者。 “对我们大多数人来说，这是最后一搏、最坏情况的时刻。
So it's a field that has barely been studied."
所以这是一个几乎没有被研究过的领域。”
This much we know: By the 1950s and 1960s, most large events had begun to hire companies to bring in temporary bathrooms for outside stadiums.
我们知道的就是：到了 20 世纪 50 年代和 1960 年代，大多数大型活动都开始聘请公司为体育场外提供临时浴室。
Tailgating had become a new American tradition, with attendance at college football games alone surging from 18.9 million in 1950 to almost 30 million in 1970, and a need for portable bathrooms was inevitable.
追车尾已经成为美国的一种新传统，仅大学橄榄球比赛的观看人数就从 1950 年的 1890 万人猛增到 1970 年的近 3000 万人，对便携式浴室的需求是不可避免的。
"In all our research, there are two main things that people always have cared about when they tailgate," says UC Irvine professor Tonya Williams Bradford, who has studied and written extensively about tailgating in the U.S. "One is that they want a spot where their friends will know how to find them.
“在我们所有的研究中，人们在追尾时总是关心两件事，”加州大学欧文分校教授托尼娅·威廉姆斯·布拉德福德（Tonya Williams Bradford）说，他对美国的追尾行为进行了大量研究并撰写了大量文章，“一是他们想要一个让他们的朋友知道如何找到他们的地方。
The other thing they talk about is port-a-potties -- they want them close, but not too close.
他们谈论的另一件事是便盆——他们希望它们靠近，但又不能太近。
They just want to be able to make a beeline for them if they need to."
他们只是希望在需要时能够径直走向他们。”
But back then, organizers usually didn't devote much attention or money, so long lines and disastrous facilities were the norm.
但当时，组织者通常不会投入太多注意力或金钱，因此排长队和灾难性的设施是常态。
Many events appear to have aimed toward one portable toilet for every 500 or so attendees.
许多活动似乎都旨在为每 500 名左右的参加者配备一个便携式厕所。
(Nowadays, port-a-potty companies recommend about one stall for every 50 people at an event.
（如今，便盆公司建议在活动中每 50 人使用一个便盆。
And if alcohol is being served, that number drops to 1 for every 40 attendees.)
如果提供酒精饮料，这个数字就会下降到每 40 名与会者 1 人。）
Legendary San Francisco-area sports writer Art Spander, who recently retired at age 82, has attended more than 40 Super Bowls and 50 Masters, and at least 30 Wimbledons, US Opens and men's Final Fours.
旧金山地区传奇体育作家阿特·斯潘德 (Art Spander) 最近以 82 岁高龄退休，他参加过 40 多场超级碗比赛和 50 多场大师赛，以及至少 30 场温布尔登、美国公开赛和男子四强赛。
He's especially well known for attending 68 straight Rose Bowl games, home to one of the largest collections of portable bathrooms in the world -- around 1,100 for the Parade of Roses, with 1,700 at the game itself.
他因连续参加 68 场玫瑰碗比赛而闻名，玫瑰碗比赛是世界上最大的便携式浴室收藏之一——玫瑰花车游行期间观看了大约 1,100 场比赛，比赛现场则有 1,700 场比赛。
So he's seen the critical rise of the sports port-a-potty.
所以他看到了运动便盆的迅速崛起。
Talking with me about them recently, he says, he's come to a realization: "You know, thank god for port-a-potties," he says.
他说，最近与我谈论它们时，他意识到：“你知道，感谢上帝有便盆，”他说。
"I don't know how sports could have kept growing in this country the way they have if we didn't have those things."
“如果我们没有这些东西，我不知道体育运动如何能够在这个国家持续发展。”
He tracks a big jump in the number of sufficient port-a-potty facilities to the mid-1970s.
他追踪到 20 世纪 70 年代中期，充足的便盆设施数量大幅增加。
"Decades ago, there were never enough," Spander says.
“几十年前，永远不够，”斯潘德说。
"People would just have to go behind their cars or try to hold it until they got in the stadium.
“人们只需要走到汽车后面或试图抓住汽车，直到进入体育场。
You used to see people just go off to the side of the road on the way into games.
你过去常常看到人们在参加比赛时就走到路边。
It was pretty disgusting."
这真是太恶心了。”
There's a very good chance that that is a direct result of sports organizers watching the biggest port-a-potty disaster in human history: 1969's Woodstock.
这很有可能是体育组织者观看了人类历史上最大的便盆灾难：1969 年伍德斯托克音乐节的直接结果。
That's when 500,000 people showed up at a farm in upstate New York and had to use 600 toilets -- an absurd 1 bathroom for every 833 people.
当时，50 万人出现在纽约州北部的一个农场，不得不使用 600 个厕所——每 833 人就有 1 个厕所，这简直荒谬。
In his Oscar-winning documentary, "Woodstock," one of filmmaker Michael Wadleigh's most memorable sequences is when he captured a jovial man named Thomas Taggart of the Port-o-San company cleaning out a row of portable toilets.
在他的奥斯卡获奖纪录片《伍德斯托克》中，电影制作人迈克尔·瓦德利最令人难忘的镜头之一是他捕捉到了圣港公司的一位名叫托马斯·塔格特的快活男子正在清理一排便携式厕所。
His happy disposition, contrasted with the epic chaos and grossness of a half million people in the mud and sewage of Woodstock, became an enduring image.
他快乐的性格与伍德斯托克的泥泞和污水中五十万人的史诗般的混乱和粗俗形成鲜明对比，成为一个持久的形象。
One striking thing about the Woodstock footage is how little port-a-potty technology has progressed.
伍德斯托克音乐节的一个引人注目的事实是，便盆技术几乎没有进步。
Taggart, at a music concert in 1969, and Ben Cansdale, at a Bills home game in 2021, walk into nearly identical plastic shells, with toilet paper latched into holders on the side.
塔格特在 1969 年的一场音乐会上，本·坎斯代尔在 2021 年比尔队的主场比赛中，走进几乎相同的塑料外壳，卫生纸插在侧面的支架上。
Taggart uses a long hose and tank to suck out a shallow porcelain bowl, which closely mirrors Cansdale's process.
塔格特使用长软管和水箱吸出一个浅瓷碗，这与坎斯代尔的工艺非常相似。
The only notable difference is the bowls of 2021 -- they're made of plastic, much wider and can hold about 10 gallons.
唯一显着的区别是 2021 年的碗——它们由塑料制成，更宽，可容纳约 10 加仑。
"The formula seems to work, and at the toilet conferences I've been to, I don't see port-a-potty innovations coming in the future, either," says University of Illinois architecture professor Kathryn Anthony, a bathroom expert who has testified in Congress about the need for equality in American restrooms.
伊利诺伊大学建筑学教授凯瑟琳·安东尼 (Kathryn Anthony) 表示：“这个公式似乎有效，而且在我参加过的厕所会议上，我也没有看到未来会出现便盆创新。”她是一名浴室专家，曾在国会就美国厕所平等的必要性作证。
"You just need the basics, so you can get in and get out."
“你只需要基础知识，这样你就可以进出。”
BEN CANSDALE GRABS his gloves.
本·坎斯代尔抓住他的手套。
The Modern crew is supposed to wait until the Bills-Colts game kicks off, but every second counts when it comes to cleaning 196 portable bathrooms in 90 minutes.
现代队的工作人员原本应该等到比尔队与小马队的比赛开始，但在 90 分钟内清洁 196 个便携式浴室时，分秒必争。
Cansdale gloves up, then walks around to the compartment outside the truck that holds a few dozen rolls of toilet paper.
坎斯代尔戴上手套，然后走到卡车外面的隔间，里面装有几十卷卫生纸。
He uses the same assembly line system as many of his teammates -- he does all of the TP replacement down the row, then five straight half-sucks, then scrubs all of them.
他和他的许多队友使用相同的装配线系统——他在一行中完成所有的TP更换，然后连续五次半吸，然后擦洗所有的TP。
It's much faster than if he tried to do each one completely before moving on to the next.
这比他在继续下一项之前尝试完全完成每一项要快得多。
A roar rises from inside the stadium as the Bills run onto the field.
当比尔队冲上球场时，体育场内响起了一阵欢呼声。
Cansdale takes that as his starter's pistol.
坎斯代尔将其作为他的首发手枪。
Fireworks blast off overhead and a military jet buzzes past the stadium as Cansdale takes off, carrying a mound of toilet paper rolls.
烟花在头顶升空，一架军用飞机从体育场上空呼啸而过，坎斯代尔起飞，载着一堆卫生纸卷。
He makes it through the first two stalls when he throws open Door No. 3 and finds a Bills fan in red, white and blue Zubaz pants peeing, oblivious that he forgot to lock the door.
当他穿过前两个隔间时，他打开了三号门，发现一名穿着红、白、蓝祖巴兹裤子的比尔队球迷正在撒尿，却忘记了他忘记锁门。
Cansdale smiles and shakes his head as he closes the door.
坎斯代尔关上门时微笑着摇了摇头。
He'd said on the ride over that people have no qualms about using a toilet during the cleaning process, and that's exactly what plays out over and over again for the next hour and a half.
他在路上说，人们在清洁过程中使用厕所时没有任何疑虑，而这正是在接下来的一个半小时里一遍又一遍地发生的事情。
"They gotta go ...
“他们得走了……
so they go," Cansdale says.
所以他们就走了，”坎斯代尔说。
Now it's time to get rid of "the volume," as Cansdale calls the contents of the port-a-potties.
现在是时候摆脱“体积”了，正如坎斯代尔所说的“便盆里的东西”。
He has a big vacuum tube connected to an empty 500-gallon tank on the trunk -- it looks like if a Ghostbusters proton gun and a leaf blower had a baby.
他的后备箱上有一根大真空管，连接着一个 500 加仑的空罐——看起来就像捉鬼敢死队质子枪和吹叶机生了一个孩子。
Cansdale warns in advance that of all the gross things he sees and smells in his job, nothing compares to the initial blast of air that comes out of the vacuum before it reverses flow.
坎斯代尔提前警告说，在他在工作中看到和闻到的所有恶心的东西中，没有什么比真空在逆转流动之前最初从真空中喷出的空气更重要的了。
It's so much worse than he described.
情况比他描述的要糟糕得多。
The wave of warm air is like opening up a 450-degree oven that has been baking full baby diapers all day.
这股暖风就像打开了一个450度的烤箱，整天都在烤满婴儿的尿布。
When it hits, a guy standing nearby gets a whiff and immediately dry heaves and starts half-jogging the other way.
当它击中时，站在附近的一个人闻到一股气味，立即干呕并开始向另一个方向慢跑。
For the next hour, Cansdale moves with surgical precision as he sucks out each toilet.
在接下来的一个小时里，坎斯代尔以外科手术般的精准动作，吸出每个厕所的东西。
They're much shallower than you'd think -- an empty stall looks a lot more like your kitchen sink than a bottomless pit.
它们比你想象的要浅得多——一个空的摊位看起来更像你的厨房水槽而不是无底坑。
He hangs up the hose at around 1:10 p.m., and now it's time for the grand finale: scrounging up any cans and debris, pouring five gallons of water back into the toilet to refill most of it, and giving a quick scrub all around the seat.
下午 1 点 10 分左右，他挂起了软管，现在是最后的时刻了：清理所有罐头和杂物，将五加仑的水倒回马桶中以补充大部分水，并快速擦洗座位周围。
When it gets a little colder, he'll fill his truck with salt water so it doesn't freeze.
当天气变冷时，他会在卡车里装满盐水，这样卡车就不会结冰。
He grabs discarded White Claw and beer cans with his gloved hands and throws them away.
他戴着手套，抓起废弃的白爪和啤酒罐，然后扔掉。
As he works his way down the line, Cansdale's hose begins to clog, so he reaches down with his gloves and pulls out ...
当他沿着生产线工作时，坎斯代尔的软管开始堵塞，所以他戴上手套，拉了出来……
somebody else's gloves.
别人的手套。
Later, he fishes out two iPhones floating at the top of separate stalls.
后来，他在不同摊位的顶部捞出了两部漂浮的 iPhone。
When he gets done with the last one, he walks down the row and drops in a small blue dye pack.
当他完成最后一个时，他沿着一排走去，扔进一个小蓝色染料包。
The plastic packs have some deodorant in them, but their job is mostly to color the water so people can see as little as possible of what lurks beneath.
塑料袋里有一些除臭剂，但它们的作用主要是给水着色，这样人们就可以尽可能少地看到潜伏在水下的东西。
Cansdale flings open the first door, gives a quick scan, drops in a pack and lets the door slam shut behind him.
坎斯代尔猛地打开第一扇门，快速浏览了一下，扔进一个包裹，然后门在他身后关上了。
Then he checks toilet No. 2, then 3, then 4.
然后他检查了2号厕所，然后是3号厕所，然后是4号厕所。
When he gets to the final one, he pulls the door open and finds the guy in Zubaz -- yep, he's back -- who didn't lock the door again.
当他到达最后一个时，他打开门，发现祖巴兹的那个人——是的，他回来了——他没有再锁门。
He shrugs and heads for the truck, on to the next row of port-a-potties on the other side of the parking lot.
他耸耸肩，走向卡车，走向停车场另一边的下一排便盆。
Cansdale throws his bucket on the truck, climbs in and looks over with the devilish smile of someone who has, literally, seen some s---.
坎斯代尔把他的水桶扔到卡车上，爬了进去，脸上带着邪恶的微笑，就像一个真正见过一些东西的人一样。
"Welcome to the port-a-potty disposal business," he says as he revs the engine.
“欢迎来到便盆处理行业，”他边说边转动发动机。
WOULD YOU BELIEVE that the bathrooms of tomorrow might look a lot like ...
您是否相信明天的浴室可能看起来很像......
port-a-potties?
便盆？
Terry Kogan is a University of Utah law professor and a founding member of Stalled!, a group of architects, legal experts and LGBTQ+ advocates who are pushing for more inclusivity in restrooms around the world.
Terry Kogan 是犹他大学法学教授，也是 Stalled! 的创始成员，该组织由建筑师、法律专家和 LGBTQ+ 倡导者组成，致力于推动世界各地卫生间的包容性。
Over the past century, Kogan says, many of society's most important conversations about diversity and inclusion have ended up centering on the bathroom.
科根说，在过去的一个世纪里，社会上许多关于多样性和包容性的最重要的对话最终都集中在浴室上。
"Sexism, racism, access for those with disabilities ...
“性别歧视、种族主义、为残疾人提供便利......
we don't have the best track record when it comes to public restrooms," Kogan says.
在公共卫生间方面，我们没有最好的记录，”科根说。
"I wouldn't want to make it too radical and say that the bathrooms tell the story of a nation.
“我不想说得太激进，说浴室讲述了一个国家的故事。
But you can tell a lot about a society by how it configures its bathrooms."
但你可以通过浴室的配置来了解一个社会的很多信息。”
And now, in the middle of a national conversation about gender, bathrooms again have often become a focal point.
现在，在关于性别的全国性对话中，浴室再次成为焦点。
Kogan and his colleagues believe we still send discriminatory messages with men's and women's restrooms, usually with images of a person in a skirt or a person with pants that signals what a man or woman is.
科根和他的同事认为，我们仍然在男厕所和女厕所中传递歧视性信息，通常会使用穿裙子或穿裤子的图像来表明男人或女人的身份。
Stalled!
停滞了！
also believes that our current men's/women's construct isn't age-inclusive because it often limits parents and caregivers of different genders.
还认为，我们当前的男性/女性结构不包含年龄，因为它经常限制不同性别的父母和照顾者。
On the Stalled!
就停滞了！
website, Kogan & Co. present detailed 3D visuals of what futuristic, inclusive bathrooms could look like -- and they sure seem like really fancy, clean, indoor port-a-potties.
在 Kogan & Co. 网站上，Kogan & Co. 展示了未来派、包容性浴室的详细 3D 视觉效果，而且它们看起来确实像真正精美、干净的室内便盆。
For a stadium restroom, Stalled!
对于体育场卫生间来说，停滞了！
suggests building a wall that separates a large space from the main traffic flow outside.
建议建造一堵墙，将大空间与外部主要交通流隔开。
On the other side of that wall, there'd be an open area for anybody, regardless of gender, with mirrors, benches and sinks.
在那堵墙的另一边，有一个开放的区域，无论性别，任何人都可以使用，配有镜子、长凳和水槽。
And in the back, there'd be rows of closed-off stalls, with no visibility into them, where you'd have no idea who was in the bathroom beside you, and it'd be noisy enough that even sheepish people wouldn't have to worry about the sounds associated with using a restroom.
在后面，有一排封闭的隔间，看不到它们，你不知道谁在你旁边的浴室里，而且噪音很大，即使是胆怯的人也不必担心与使用厕所相关的声音。
As prehistoric as their design can feel, portable bathrooms are, oddly, where society may be headed.
奇怪的是，尽管便携式浴室的设计给人一种史前的感觉，但它却是社会的发展方向。
"In that way, port-a-potties are a great equalizer," he says.
“从这个角度来看，便盆是一个很好的均衡器，”他说。
"They're private, anybody can go in them and people seem to get over their fears about who will use the stall beside them."
“它们是私人的，任何人都可以进去，人们似乎不再担心谁会使用他们旁边的摊位。”
Stalled!
停滞了！
advocates to basically wipe out all gender labels to make what Kogan calls all-gender, multiuser stalls, similar to the way most rows of port-a-potties make no distinction.
倡导者从根本上消除所有性别标签，打造科根所说的全性别、多用户摊位，类似于大多数排便盆不区分性别的方式。
But in Buffalo, one of the most popular places for Bills Mafia members to convene is Hammer's Lot, where owner Eric "Hammer" Matwijow considers it a perk that he labels two stalls for women only.
但在布法罗，比尔黑手党成员最喜欢聚集的地方之一是 Hammer's Lot，店主 Eric“Hammer”Matwijow 认为这是一种福利，他将两个摊位标记为仅供女性使用。
He's a gruff, 64-year-old roofer with a lifetime of port-a-potty experience, and he spends $2,500 per season to have six total port-a-potties (two for women, four for whoever wants to use them) serviced by Modern Disposal.
他是一位粗鲁的 64 岁屋顶工人，一生都有使用便盆的经验，他每季花费 2,500 美元购买由 Modern Disposal 提供服务的总共 6 个便盆（两个供女性使用，四个供任何想要使用的人使用）。
On the day of the Colts game, Hammer spends a large chunk of his morning barking at lot workers about the bathrooms.
在与小马队比赛的那天，哈默早上的大部分时间都在对着很多关于卫生间的工作人员咆哮。
"Make sure there are no guys going in the women's port-a-potties," he yells.
“确保没有男人进入女厕所，”他喊道。
In conversations with more than 20 women outside the Bills' stadium, cordoning off restrooms got a unanimous thumbs-up.
在与比尔队体育场外 20 多名女性的交谈中，封锁卫生间的做法得到了一致好评。
"It's a huge factor -- I like the idea of women having their own toilets," says one woman who politely declines to give her name for a story about port-a-potties.
“这是一个重要因素——我喜欢女性拥有自己厕所的想法，”一位在有关便盆的故事中礼貌地拒绝透露姓名的女性说道。
"I don't want to have to hide behind a car, and I don't want to go in something disgusting.
“我不想躲在车后面，也不想做一些令人恶心的事情。
So you gotta have 'em, and you gotta make sure they're not a mess, too."
所以你必须拥有它们，而且你还必须确保它们不乱七八糟。”
That can be an issue in private lots.
这在私人地段可能是一个问题。
Almost half of the 380 total Modern port-a-potties near Bills home games are in private lots, but the drivers can't squeeze their trucks into smaller lots like Hammer's when they're full of cars.
比尔主场附近共有 380 个现代便盆，几乎有一半位于私人停车场，但当车满了时，司机们无法将卡车挤进像汉默那样的较小停车场。
So by 5 p.m.
所以到了下午 5 点。
on the day of the Colts game, a Hammer's Lot worker had declared one out of commission and put two trash cans blocking the front of it.
在与小马队比赛的当天，Hammer's Lot 的一名工人宣布其中一台停止使用，并在其前面放置了两个垃圾桶。
(Cansdale had to clean that one the next day, and says he needed a power washer to clean barf off the sides of the walls.)
（坎斯代尔第二天必须清理那个，并说他需要一台电动清洗机来清理墙壁两侧的呕吐物。）
Across the street in another lot where port-a-potty maintenance seems to be less of a concern, a couple walk up to two stalls holding hands.
在街对面的另一个地段，厕所的维护似乎不太受关注，一对夫妇手牵着手走向两个摊位。
Near the doors, they release their hands and open their respective doors ...
临近门的时候，他们松开了手，打开了各自的门……
only to look at each other and turn away in horror.
只是互相看了一眼，然后惊恐地转过头去。
Sometimes the cost of having to hold it isn't as bad as the price of getting to go.
有时，持有它的成本并不像离开它的代价那么糟糕。
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT portable bathrooms that seems to really bring out our inner Johnny Knoxville.
便携式浴室似乎确实能激发我们内心的约翰尼·诺克斯维尔。
On Nov.
十一月一日
6, Iowa State band director Christian Carichner was having a quick lunch at Jack Trice Stadium before the Cyclones played Texas.
6 月 6 日，爱荷华州乐队指挥克里斯蒂安·卡里奇纳 (Christian Carichner) 在旋风队对阵德克萨斯州之前在杰克·特莱斯体育场 (Jack Trice Stadium) 吃午餐。
The band warms up on game days, then has a tradition of scattering around the tailgating lots to play the fight song.
乐队在比赛日热身，然后有一个传统，那就是分散在车尾聚会的场地上演奏战斗歌曲。
As Carichner mowed through a soggy cheeseburger, a friend approached and showed him a viral clip of his band.
当卡里奇纳切一个湿漉漉的芝士汉堡时，一位朋友走过来给他看了一段他乐队的热门视频。
About 50 members had hidden near 10 port-a-potties, waited until they were sufficiently occupied, then jumped out and started blasting the 25-second fight song.
大约 50 名成员躲在 10 个便盆附近，等到它们都被填满后，才跳出来，开始播放 25 秒的战斗歌曲。
The clip shows kids putting fingers in their ears as perplexed toilet users meander out into the blaring noise of "ISU Fights." A few hours later, the band put on a remarkable halftime performance in which it paid homage to a history of video games and e-characters, from Super Mario Brothers up through Pokémon.
视频中，孩子们用手指捂住耳朵，困惑的厕所使用者在“ISU 战斗”的刺耳噪音中蜿蜒前行。几个小时后，乐队进行了一场精彩的中场表演，向电子游戏和电子角色的历史致敬，从超级马里奥兄弟到神奇宝贝。
"And yet, the thing that goes viral is our band members at the port-a-potties," Carichner says.
“然而，最火的是我们的乐队成员在便盆旁，”卡里奇纳说。
"But hey, nobody wants to go into a port-a-potty.
“但是，嘿，没有人愿意进入便盆。
If you're going to be in there, don't you think it's a little nicer with some music playing in the background?"
如果你要去那里，你不觉得放点背景音乐更好吗？”
There's also a horrifying subgenre of YouTube videos featuring people trying to run across the top rows of port-a-potties.
YouTube 视频中还有一个令人恐怖的子流派，内容是人们试图跑过最上面几排便盆。
The most infamous examples seem to happen at Triple Crown races -- especially the Kentucky Derby -- where daring adults attempt a toilet sprint.
最臭名昭著的例子似乎发生在三冠王比赛中——尤其是肯塔基德比——大胆的成年人尝试厕所冲刺。
Many videos feature fans throwing full beer cans at the runners, and eventually most either fall down on top of the toilets or down through the ceilings.
许多视频中，粉丝们向跑步者扔满啤酒罐，最终大多数啤酒罐要么掉到马桶顶上，要么从天花板上掉下来。
The roofs of port-a-potties are quite thin and can support only about 100 pounds of pressure before they collapse.
便盆的顶部非常薄，在倒塌之前只能承受大约 100 磅的压力。
The day of the Bills-Colts game, Cansdale and other crew members stand around at Modern's local headquarters and rattle off an endless stream of stories about port-a-potty shenanigans.
比尔斯与小马队比赛当天，坎斯代尔和其他工作人员站在摩登当地总部周围，滔滔不绝地讲述着关于便盆恶作剧的故事。
The rundown, of course, begins with the tipped-over port-a-potty.
当然，要从翻倒的便盆开始。
"The funny thing is, if you tip one over backwards, it's usually fine -- everything stays down in the bowl," says Dan McKenna, the crew supervisor.
“有趣的是，如果你把一个向后翻倒，通常不会有什么问题——所有东西都会留在碗里，”机组主管丹·麦肯纳 (Dan McKenna) 说。
"But if it goes over frontwards ..."
“但是如果它向前移动的话……”
McKenna doesn't finish his sentence, and he doesn't have to.
麦肯纳没有把话说完，他也没有必要说完。
The crew members all nod their heads, a solemn remembrance of what makes for the longest, darkest moments of any port-a-potty cleaner's day.
船员们都点点头，庄严地纪念了厕所清洁工一天中最长、最黑暗的时刻。
The whole crew sighs in unison when one of them mentions how at almost every construction site, some clever worker puts on his best Cousin Eddie voice and yells down at them, "Hey, is the s---ter clogged?"
当其中一个人提到几乎在每个建筑工地，都有一些聪明的工人用他最好的表弟埃迪的声音对他们大喊：“嘿，是不是堵住了？”时，全体工作人员齐声叹息。
McKenna then mentions that lately they've had a few instances where people either light port-a-potties on fire or blow them up entirely.
麦肯纳随后提到，最近发生了几起人们要么点燃便盆，要么将其完全炸毁的情况。
He gestures for us to follow him, and he walks back between a few dozen port-a-potties surrounding the garage area that have been returned, sucked out but are in need of a full clean.
他示意我们跟着他，然后他在车库周围的几十个便盆之间走回来，这些便盆已经归还，被吸走了，但需要彻底清洁。
McKenna stops in front of a stall that will soon be going to port-a-potty heaven.
麦肯纳在一个很快就会成为便盆天堂的摊位前停下来。
He approaches one with side walls that are still mostly upright, but the entire middle, including the toilet seat and bowl, was blown to pieces by either dynamite or a significant amount of fireworks.
他走近一处，其侧壁大部分仍是直立的，但整个中间部分，包括马桶座圈和马桶，都被炸药或大量烟花炸成了碎片。
Somebody from Modern put a fluorescent green traffic cone at the bottom that serves as a temporary tombstone for this poor fella.
现代的有人在底部放了一个荧光绿色的交通锥，作为这个可怜家伙的临时墓碑。
BY THE TIME the Bills limp into the locker room trailing the Colts 24-7 at halftime, the entire crew of Modern is on the road back to headquarters five minutes away.
当比尔队在中场休息时以 24-7 落后小马队一瘸一拐地走进更衣室时，现代队的全体工作人员已经在返回总部的路上了，五分钟路程外。
The five trucks have successfully half-sucked almost 200 portable toilets, and the guys are exhausted.
五辆卡车已经成功地把近200个移动厕所吸走了一半，大家都累坏了。
Their "volume" is emptied into one big tanker, which then takes it over to the Buffalo sewage treatment facility.
它们的“体积”被倒入一艘大型油轮中，然后运往布法罗污水处理设施。
They'll repeat the same thing the next three days, this time with a meticulous full-suck of the private and public lots.
他们将在接下来的三天内重复同样的事情，这一次将彻底清理私人和公共土地。
Two weeks later, during the windy Monday Night Football game in which Mac Jones throws only three passes, Cansdale and his crewmates do the suckiest half-suck anybody can remember.
两周后，在大风的周一橄榄球之夜比赛中，麦克·琼斯只传了三球，坎斯代尔和他的队友们却做出了任何人记忆中最糟糕的半糟糕的动作。
The wind is so strong that multiple port-a-potties blow over and zip around parking lots like big plastic sailboats, sending terrified Bills fans running.
风如此之大，以至于多个便盆被吹倒，像大型塑料帆船一样在停车场周围飞驰，吓得比尔队的球迷四散奔逃。
The only thing that keeps them anchored is following up the half-sucks by filling the bowls as high as possible with extra gallons of water.
唯一能让它们固定下来的就是在半吸完之后，用额外加仑的水将碗装得尽可能高。
But when Cansdale heads home on game days -- even the port-a-potty-calypse of Bills-Patriots -- he's way happier than you'd think a person could be after vacuuming out plastic toilets at a football stadium.
但当坎斯代尔在比赛日回家时——即使是比尔爱国者队的便盆灾难——他比你想象的一个人在用吸尘器清理足球场的塑料厕所后要快乐得多。
Before taking this job earlier in 2021, he'd been making $15 an hour as an electrician.
在 2021 年初接受这份工作之前，他是一名电工，时薪为 15 美元。
He's now above $25 an hour, with significant bonuses for working Bills games.
他现在的时薪已超过 25 美元，并因参加 Bills 比赛而获得巨额奖金。
He's still pretty much a rookie, but his veteran teammates talk about him like he's the Micah Parsons of the 2021 port-a-potty business: gifted, fast, relentless, unafraid of the fray.
他仍然是一个新秀，但他的老队友们谈论他就像是 2021 年便盆行业的米卡·帕森斯 (Micah Parsons)：有天赋、速度快、坚持不懈、不惧怕争吵。
Before he took this job, he was scraping by while he and his pregnant girlfriend, Lindsay, rotated between which bill they could skip that month.
在接受这份工作之前，他和怀孕的女友林赛 (Lindsay) 轮流在本月可以跳过的账单之间勉强度日。
He dropped out of the punk-rock band he'd been in for 10 years and desperately tried to come up with a way to buy a ring and propose to Lindsay without getting the lights to their small home shut off.
他退出了已经加入了 10 年的朋克摇滚乐队，拼命想办法买一枚戒指，并向 Lindsay 求婚，同时又不关掉他们小家的灯。
Then she had their son, Silas, 11 months ago and things got really tight.
11 个月前，她生下了儿子塞拉斯 (Silas)，事情变得非常紧张。
He had to look for another job.
他不得不寻找另一份工作。
He posted a résumé on a job-search site and got 17 reach-outs right away.
他在一个求职网站上发布了一份简历，立即得到了 17 个人的联系。
One was from Modern Disposal, asking him to become one of the 750 people who take care of much of Buffalo's trash and portable toilets.
其中一封来自 Modern Disposal，要求他成为 750 名负责处理布法罗大部分垃圾和便携式厕所的人员之一。
He felt some initial embarrassment about possibly being in the waste business, but then he heard about the salary and benefits and applied to be a garbageman.
最初，他对可能从事垃圾处理行业感到有些尴尬，但后来他听说了工资和福利，并申请成为一名垃圾工。
Within a week, he was at Modern Academy, where the company trains the trash collectors and port-a-potty half-suckers of tomorrow.
一周之内，他就进入了现代学院，该公司在那里培训垃圾收集者和明天的便盆笨蛋。
There's a pretty clear hierarchy at Modern Academy -- most people with a commercial driver's license would prefer to do garbage rather than sewage.
现代学院有一个相当清晰的等级制度——大多数拥有商业驾驶执照的人更喜欢做垃圾而不是污水。
So solid prospects with no real preference, like Cansdale, often get courted for the port-a-potty track.
像坎斯代尔这样没有真正偏好的可靠前景，经常会因为便盆赛道而受到青睐。
"When it comes down to it, I find no shame being able to take care of my family," he says.
“归根结底，我并不觉得能够照顾我的家人感到羞耻，”他说。
"I make good money and have good benefits, and I live stress-free right now.
“我赚了很多钱，福利也不错，现在生活没有压力。
I don't see any shame in that."
我不认为这有什么可耻的。”
He comes home from mad dashes, like he had on Sunday, exhausted and smelling terrible.
他像周日一样，从疯狂的冲刺中回到家，精疲力竭，气味难闻。
He calls Lindsay from outside the house so she can distract Silas while Cansdale flies inside and jumps right in the shower.
他从屋外给林赛打电话，这样她就可以分散塞拉斯的注意力，而坎斯代尔则飞进屋内，跳进淋浴间。
When he gets out, he plays with his son for a bit before dinner, then everybody preps for bedtime.
当他出去时，他会在晚饭前和儿子玩一会儿，然后每个人都准备睡觉。
Cansdale still tries to play his acoustic guitar a few minutes every day, usually right before they put Silas to bed around 7 p.m.
坎斯代尔仍然尝试每天弹几分钟原声吉他，通常是在晚上 7 点左右他们让塞拉斯上床睡觉之前。
On the day of Bills-Colts, when he starts strumming an original song, he hears the pitter-patter of tiny feet trodding toward him.
在比尔-小马队比赛的那天，当他开始弹奏一首原创歌曲时，他听到小脚踩向他的脚步声。
His son surges into the room and listens to his dad play.
他的儿子冲进房间，听他爸爸演奏。
It's a silly tune Cansdale developed one night during a particularly messy diaper change.
这是坎斯代尔一天晚上在一次特别混乱的换尿布过程中创作的一首愚蠢的曲子。
Silas loved it the first time his dad sang it, and Cansdale loves that it's the last thing he'll do on this day.
塞拉斯（Silas）在他父亲第一次唱这首歌时就喜欢上了这首歌，而坎斯代尔（Cansdale）则喜欢这是他这一天要做的最后一件事。
The lyrics are nonsensical and interchangeable, except for the one-word title, which Cansdale thinks is just the perfect chorus: Stinkybaby.
除了单字标题外，歌词毫无意义且可以互换，坎斯代尔认为这正是完美的副歌：Stinkybaby。