7 YEARS LOUIS. 7 YEARS. You basically swearing at me through the tv screen has finally paid off. I got the 2nd Macbook fault right. I remember you explaining that crap design before. 50v short to cpu data line. What a classic, timeless design!
I am not a service technician or anything, but I have to say Louis I find your repair videos very interesting and informative, however what I really enjoy are your monologues from your chair with Mr Clinton & Oreo. Please keep doing these. Always an interesting listen.
That's a fair description of how a buck converter works in general. The inductor (the coil) creates a magnetic field when current passes through which, for lack of a better term, stores that energy. This field takes time to grow and, when the source is no longer there, collapses in a predictable manner. You can smooth the resulting current out with some capacitors. The order, or configuration, of transistor, MOSFET, or physical switch; inductor; and capacitors dictate whether it's a buck (down) or boost (up) converter of voltage. You can't simply pulse your switch because the target will simply see spikes of input voltage then 0 then input voltage then 0...
I like taking apart laptops, but it's so much more heartbreaking when it's your own. 3 yrs, no liquids nearby, but I was stuck home sick, by myself on Xmas & wanted to watch a movie... & spilled my green tea like I was throwing a softball pitch. What a way to go.
About every thinkpad has separate connector for display backlight and LCD data. But emotionally disturbed people at Apple put them next to each other....
"I made this thing so that people as stupid as me could understand how shit works." I think Feynman said pretty much exactly the same thing about quantum physics 40 years ago.
It is a little diffierence - you may say anything you want untill someone will actually does something, create work places, and stores, and goods with embedded dying mechanisms in it by purpouse. It is what it is. Artifical heart also has mechanism of programmed material tide, but, if someone whould sell heard replacement parts which dies after a 5 days of usage, ... and there is no difference, such product like apple laptop can be used to make some data analysis on a patient, for example, and dies completely cause apple engineers says so, designed for that, and make everything that that life savings data whould probably die on a die as fast as possible, and you never recover that data, cause apple engineers wants you to buy a new one laptop, cause they what earn some money despite everything else, they literally don't care if someone dies, it does not matters. what matters for them is that no one will probably use they product for too long, otherwise they just a bancrots
Good, because a lot of "real" engineers are crap (lazy?) explaining simplest things/concepts. Some time down the line all training, apprenticeship and practice totally gone to crapper.
I remember why I originally subbed to Louis, repair videos satisfy that learn shit itch. The rage pron videos satisfy something deeper. First repair I've watched in months.
I've spilled liquid on my Lenovo x270 three times (red wine, beer and water). 1st time some keys on the keyboard were dysfunctional, but I got the keyboard replaced under warranty. 2nd time the integrated mouse buttons stopped working and the 3rd time nothing adverse happened. Replaced the $20 touchpad (containing the mouse buttons) a week ago, and the laptop is now fully functional.
Nice. My Lenovo eventually developed a green line on the display. I may have dropped it or put too much pressure. Real slight separation in the top frame I guess not feeding power/data to that one row of pixels... ... the replacement screen cost me £50, took 30 mins to fit, and was a better version (nice finish, better type/upgraded version etc). Really great stuff!
Dude, I'm an electrical engineer with an emphasis on hardware troubleshooting, and how your describe the Buck Converter is what I have to deal with, everyday.
If I was Louis at this point I'd be wondering when Apple is gonna figure out a way to put AC grid voltage right next to a CPU line somewhere ^_^
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I guess it all worked according to master plan: 1. intentional bad design 2. single drop of water = terminally damaged hardware 3. no money for bad actor Louis or any 3rd party repair company 4. even more customers money for Apple.
Your "OK Google" didn't work on my phone. It recognises the voices of the L1Techs folks better than me though lol. I have their podcasts on a lot when I'm driving, Wendell often activates some insane Voice Assistant searches.
i just bought an all in one that can fit 4790k technically, although they are still pretty expensive i might just use a smaller chip. But im building my own all in one from a board. Competing very strong with current raspberry pi . just 10 times bigger.
Engineer student here: yes, your explanation lacks one crucial detail to be correctly oversimplified, the fact that the pulses can be converted only with the inductors and capacitors in the system, if those fail you get the high voltage pulses directly into the rest of the system
"This computer is going to give me omicron." Revealed, the REAL reason for the pandemic. To teach us all the Greek alphabet. Well we're going to need it when Russia takes over. 🙂
This board goes bye bye, I have yet to find something like this and hope I never will. I will never understand why they put high voltage lines next to direct CPU lines that has a high chance to kill it! GG Apple!
So the way you described a buck converter, we will never achieve 100% perfect energy usage with no loss. There will always be some energy that is not used and gets dissipated as heat.
( 6:02 )Dont worry about your guide being easy and eeeextra simple, the military handbooks are legitimately only an 8th grade reading and comprehension level and they shoot guns and jump out of planes, i think ya did perfect on it
You’re saying this is done for, I seem to remember a video with a drill a bit and anger that ended with a working board! The definition of think outside the box you looked like you were augering a hole through ice.
You were pretty close to the Warcraft 2 - Blood Lust Trigger; I remember it more of a Rah Rah Rah or a WuahWuahWuah sound but I could be confusing it with the retouched WC2 sound effects?
Yes, you did trigger my Google Nest Audio. Twice, actually. The first time the assistant asked you how it can help you. The second time it began reading from the Wikipedia entry about the Brexit. Isn't technology great?
I'm sometimes bad at cleaning the dust out my PC. I love tinkering with tech, so often do strip it down to clean. I've had a cat [Ironically named Pinky). I've left a PC for ages, and pulled out all the dust bunnies. I live in the country, and we get thunder bugs etc everywhere... never... never have I had a dead bug in my computer (except a pill bug from a new laptop, poor thing must have crawled in there as they boxed it up XD ). What ARE you people doing in NYC and is it infectious?
How about the idea to run two stores, one would be authorized apple repair store (let's say on Erica's name) the other is where you get things done. So you'd have access for the tools but no commitments to apple...
I don't understand how its so common for Louis. I do logic board repair and I've genuinely never seen this happen with water damage. Granted I live in a smallish town in the UK, but I've never seen CPU damage.
Bugs... I see them every now and then when I work on and clean some of the electronics I get in. Got a place that gives me electronics and even have found mud in some. Sometimes tiny turds where the roaches had been.
Nothing official by Apple. Leaks, or someone got them officially and sold them on the net. If I recall correctly Apple actually can sue people who got layouts illegally (cause stolen intellectual property), but I believe they chose not to, because they will get much higher backlash than they expect.
Hey Louis, free non-macbook advice if you've seen these symptoms before? Solvent spill (alcohol) on keyboard, replaced keyboard, specific keys still not registering, or registering incorrect button presses (up arrow goes down, down arrow goes down as it should, "a" key types "as" characters, etc, specific keys only). Noticed "gunk" of some kind of "old" keyboard ribbon (close to connector). Possible dirty connector on motherboard? How would one clean it (it's a ribbon cable, so insanely tight space in that connector and cannot confirm if dirty) or is that a straight up replacement of the connector somehow? Could it be a red herring to a separate issue?
14:50 - Yup... m phone... then it started to explain to me what the google assistant was, because it thought i wanted to search on google, the phrase "ok google" -_- Thanks i guess.....
Wrong place to post this. But I have 4 Anker lithium battery packs with spotty Qualcomm rated USB ports. Any recommendations on what soldiering tools to start with? I'm guessing cold soldier joints.
Probably a magnet. I imagine the screw driver isn't magnetic but is ferrous so he can do that to choose when he had a magnetic screw and when he doesn't.
It seems a way to force people to buy more products, by making it a risky motherboard that can't be fixed, also unless one has the right tools, chipset, cpu, what might be difficult to get a hold of. It is about time big companys arop making it difficult for customers, right to the repair should be easy.
1 drop is enough if it drops into the right(wrong) spot, and macbook's keyboard have holes for air to go through for cooling, air can go through, so is water. Perfect planned obsolence
Replacing the CPU is a high-skill process (because it is soldered on, not socketed), requiring the use of a very specialized machine, and you have to FIND a known-good CPU to replace it with. And after all that, you get to hope that the heat of putting the new one on didn't harm it, there was nothing else wrong with the inner layers of the board, and Apple's software actually lets the computer recognize and use the new CPU. - So high repair cost, and with Apple blocking component sales and repair in general, it might not even work when done.
Questions for anyone really. If I want to see those buck convertor peaks and valleys on a board which cheap oscilloscope can I use and learn with? Output or gate. Under $100.
I get a lot of cat hair, beard hair, and beard dandruff in my keyboard, that's about it; no food, no bugs, no fluid, and just a little dust inside my PC case.
Common factor is scummy people that don’t know how to take care of their shit, and then think we can fix it for them lol. It’s simple, keep liquids away from all devices…
Like with most spills, bad container placement, not capping between drinks and insufficient attention. edit: sorry, you asked for one cause. So let's call it human error.
Wow... working on a liquid damaged macBook without gloves... don't forget that could be some special sauce you're getting all over your naked hands... :D
Warcraft 2 ogre sounds... hahaha! But an annoyed sheep was way better. Now, who played this game back in the '90s? :) Daaaaaamn, this thing is so badly burnt I'd give up right away. And those bugs! Was that a louse, or what? Will you start wearing a hazmat suit for repairs like these?
2030 MacBook: Includes dedicated chip that serves no other purpose but to to send 300v into the CPU when a random number between 1-8,192 is chosen upon starting the machine. If you try removing or tampering with the chip, the proprietary encrypted SSD will automatically self destruct. Watch them do this 😂
Listen this is a mystery I've been wondering about since I've started following this channel. HOW THE FUCK do you get insects and all that other grossiness inside your pc? Please explain. I'm a smoker and my keyboard sucks and I should dust off my pc more often, BUT NEVER HAVE I EVER had fucking insects in my hardware!
"that's an overclock even linus cant recover from .... LOL!"
19:38 timestamp.
😂
Jesus Linus - 0 degree CPU cooling is ridiculous
Careful, he might take up that challenge!
7 YEARS LOUIS. 7 YEARS. You basically swearing at me through the tv screen has finally paid off. I got the 2nd Macbook fault right. I remember you explaining that crap design before. 50v short to cpu data line. What a classic, timeless design!
It's sorta like a rite of passage ain't it?
Makes the 12v look like a walk in the park.
At this rate:
2025 Macbook > breathe on it > it's done for
Why would you breathe on it?! Your breath contains water vapour you maniac! That's immediate water damage!
You're breathing wrong!
I am not a service technician or anything, but I have to say Louis I find your repair videos very interesting and informative, however what I really enjoy are your monologues from your chair with Mr Clinton & Oreo. Please keep doing these. Always an interesting listen.
That's a fair description of how a buck converter works in general. The inductor (the coil) creates a magnetic field when current passes through which, for lack of a better term, stores that energy. This field takes time to grow and, when the source is no longer there, collapses in a predictable manner. You can smooth the resulting current out with some capacitors.
The order, or configuration, of transistor, MOSFET, or physical switch; inductor; and capacitors dictate whether it's a buck (down) or boost (up) converter of voltage.
You can't simply pulse your switch because the target will simply see spikes of input voltage then 0 then input voltage then 0...
I like taking apart laptops, but it's so much more heartbreaking when it's your own. 3 yrs, no liquids nearby, but I was stuck home sick, by myself on Xmas & wanted to watch a movie... & spilled my green tea like I was throwing a softball pitch. What a way to go.
About every thinkpad has separate connector for display backlight and LCD data.
But emotionally disturbed people at Apple put them next to each other....
"I made this thing so that people as stupid as me could understand how shit works."
I think Feynman said pretty much exactly the same thing about quantum physics 40 years ago.
Viz.: ua-cam.com/video/P1ww1IXRfTA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ChristopherSykes
It is a little diffierence - you may say anything you want untill someone will actually does something, create work places, and stores, and goods with embedded dying mechanisms in it by purpouse. It is what it is. Artifical heart also has mechanism of programmed material tide, but, if someone whould sell heard replacement parts which dies after a 5 days of usage, ... and there is no difference, such product like apple laptop can be used to make some data analysis on a patient, for example, and dies completely cause apple engineers says so, designed for that, and make everything that that life savings data whould probably die on a die as fast as possible, and you never recover that data, cause apple engineers wants you to buy a new one laptop, cause they what earn some money despite everything else, they literally don't care if someone dies, it does not matters. what matters for them is that no one will probably use they product for too long, otherwise they just a bancrots
Good, because a lot of "real" engineers are crap (lazy?) explaining simplest things/concepts. Some time down the line all training, apprenticeship and practice totally gone to crapper.
27 volts overclocking to 10GHZ
I remember why I originally subbed to Louis, repair videos satisfy that learn shit itch. The rage pron videos satisfy something deeper. First repair I've watched in months.
I've spilled liquid on my Lenovo x270 three times (red wine, beer and water). 1st time some keys on the keyboard were dysfunctional, but I got the keyboard replaced under warranty. 2nd time the integrated mouse buttons stopped working and the 3rd time nothing adverse happened. Replaced the $20 touchpad (containing the mouse buttons) a week ago, and the laptop is now fully functional.
Nice. My Lenovo eventually developed a green line on the display. I may have dropped it or put too much pressure. Real slight separation in the top frame I guess not feeding power/data to that one row of pixels...
... the replacement screen cost me £50, took 30 mins to fit, and was a better version (nice finish, better type/upgraded version etc). Really great stuff!
But you guys are... Uhh... Not having the... Um... Beauty of Apple design by not using MacBooks
Dude, I'm an electrical engineer with an emphasis on hardware troubleshooting, and how your describe the Buck Converter is what I have to deal with, everyday.
You activated my google sound bar three times Louis!
If I was Louis at this point I'd be wondering when Apple is gonna figure out a way to put AC grid voltage right next to a CPU line somewhere ^_^
I guess it all worked according to master plan:
1. intentional bad design
2. single drop of water = terminally damaged hardware
3. no money for bad actor Louis or any 3rd party repair company
4. even more customers money for Apple.
Your "OK Google" didn't work on my phone. It recognises the voices of the L1Techs folks better than me though lol. I have their podcasts on a lot when I'm driving, Wendell often activates some insane Voice Assistant searches.
Honestly, I don't care if I have a chonky boi, computer manufacturers and component manufacturers need to bring back socketed laptop CPUs.
Socket CPUs for laptop is gone?
@@louistournas120 Since the early 2010s. Haswell was the last generation on the Intel side to use a socketed CPU for laptops.
i just bought an all in one that can fit 4790k technically, although they are still pretty expensive i might just use a smaller chip. But im building my own all in one from a board. Competing very strong with current raspberry pi . just 10 times bigger.
Yes Louis you did. My Google Home was saying " what are you asking" and " I'm sorry, I don't know how to do that". hahaha
Engineer student here: yes, your explanation lacks one crucial detail to be correctly oversimplified, the fact that the pulses can be converted only with the inductors and capacitors in the system, if those fail you get the high voltage pulses directly into the rest of the system
"This computer is going to give me omicron."
Revealed, the REAL reason for the pandemic. To teach us all the Greek alphabet. Well we're going to need it when Russia takes over. 🙂
It won't be much help, the Russians use the Cyrillic alphabet :D
Except the letter "xi" , they skipped that
@@manos7958 Cyrillic is derived from the Greek alphabet
This board goes bye bye, I have yet to find something like this and hope I never will. I will never understand why they put high voltage lines next to direct CPU lines that has a high chance to kill it! GG Apple!
I did learn a lot. Thank you.
Hi Louis. I have a blown speaker port I was hoping you could take a look at. It blew out at 23:37 😂
I love how Louis edits his videos. Makes me feel like I'm on an alternate timeline some where between the future and the past right now.
So the way you described a buck converter, we will never achieve 100% perfect energy usage with no loss. There will always be some energy that is not used and gets dissipated as heat.
yes, this is true for all materials currently in use.
Louis's screwdriver looks like something from Katamari Damacy
I still get a giggle out of "That's an overclock even Linus couldn't recover from." since the FIRST time I saw that segment. :D
( 6:02 )Dont worry about your guide being easy and eeeextra simple, the military handbooks are legitimately only an 8th grade reading and comprehension level and they shoot guns and jump out of planes, i think ya did perfect on it
engineer or not; we still love you....!
Lol @ 19:21
Emotionally Disturbed Person
I was watching your video while you are chanting "Okay Google", the first thing Google hears back from me is "shut up!"
You’re saying this is done for, I seem to remember a video with a drill a bit and anger that ended with a working board! The definition of think outside the box you looked like you were augering a hole through ice.
BRO my mac got a worm
Hmm, bit mac cant get malware
Louis: hey guys hold my beer
14:17 *OK, Google.* - Whatever u're trying, no electronic spies listening here. 😜
You were pretty close to the Warcraft 2 - Blood Lust Trigger; I remember it more of a Rah Rah Rah or a WuahWuahWuah sound but I could be confusing it with the retouched WC2 sound effects?
Yes Louis, you activated my device... multiple times.
Yes, you did trigger my Google Nest Audio. Twice, actually. The first time the assistant asked you how it can help you. The second time it began reading from the Wikipedia entry about the Brexit. Isn't technology great?
I was not ready for that ogre noise at all. Holy moly, my sides
I'm sometimes bad at cleaning the dust out my PC. I love tinkering with tech, so often do strip it down to clean. I've had a cat [Ironically named Pinky). I've left a PC for ages, and pulled out all the dust bunnies. I live in the country, and we get thunder bugs etc everywhere... never... never have I had a dead bug in my computer (except a pill bug from a new laptop, poor thing must have crawled in there as they boxed it up XD ).
What ARE you people doing in NYC and is it infectious?
Always the best videos Louis!
An apple with a worm. I've seen that before. Not uncommon
How about the idea to run two stores, one would be authorized apple repair store (let's say on Erica's name) the other is where you get things done. So you'd have access for the tools but no commitments to apple...
When Apple does its random investigations, he'd lose the license
I don't understand how its so common for Louis. I do logic board repair and I've genuinely never seen this happen with water damage. Granted I live in a smallish town in the UK, but I've never seen CPU damage.
Bugs... I see them every now and then when I work on and clean some of the electronics I get in. Got a place that gives me electronics and even have found mud in some. Sometimes tiny turds where the roaches had been.
10:18 good Bob Ross incorporation
the 2nd stream here sounds fun
too bad I'm unable to attend them
Mesmerized by this...
10 min 49 s You need to use a debugger to remove bugs from your computer. We learned that in Orange Eating Class.
Where do you get schematics and 3D layout pdfs ? Is that officially provided by Apple or some data leaks that happen now and then?
Nothing official by Apple. Leaks, or someone got them officially and sold them on the net.
If I recall correctly Apple actually can sue people who got layouts illegally (cause stolen intellectual property), but I believe they chose not to, because they will get much higher backlash than they expect.
Hey Louis, free non-macbook advice if you've seen these symptoms before?
Solvent spill (alcohol) on keyboard, replaced keyboard, specific keys still not registering, or registering incorrect button presses (up arrow goes down, down arrow goes down as it should, "a" key types "as" characters, etc, specific keys only).
Noticed "gunk" of some kind of "old" keyboard ribbon (close to connector). Possible dirty connector on motherboard?
How would one clean it (it's a ribbon cable, so insanely tight space in that connector and cannot confirm if dirty) or is that a straight up replacement of the connector somehow?
Could it be a red herring to a separate issue?
I bought a macbook pro just so I could send it to you to fix when it breaks
that is SO many levels of masochism.
14:50 - Yup... m phone... then it started to explain to me what the google assistant was, because it thought i wanted to search on google, the phrase "ok google" -_-
Thanks i guess.....
The second one A1706 , all I can see is Mr Krabs from spongebob 🤪
things are getting harder to repairs
i am getting temperature fluctuations second to second in excess of 30 degrees C
Am i the only person that gets anxiety from how he leaves all the screws on the screwdriver while using said screwdriver
Likely so.
No, same here. But hey, I get anxiety from many things :-)
Is this design true for M1 macbooks?
To be honest, I always avoid burn traces for repair
It sucks, and not gonna work
if the dead CPU train is dead... it would go Boo Hoooooo
Wrong place to post this.
But I have 4 Anker lithium battery packs with spotty Qualcomm rated USB ports.
Any recommendations on what soldiering tools to start with?
I'm guessing cold soldier joints.
Did someone say Choo Choo?!!
Hey, I'm not a repair guy, just a developer. May I ask what is the little thingy he puts on the screwdriver?
Probably a magnet. I imagine the screw driver isn't magnetic but is ferrous so he can do that to choose when he had a magnetic screw and when he doesn't.
He has a magnet on the side of the screwdriver & whenever he undoes a screw, he attaches the screw to the magnet to keep it safe but nearby.
You're never afraid All those screws will get too heavy and fall off? Lol
It seems a way to force people to buy more products, by making it a risky motherboard that can't be fixed, also unless one has the right tools, chipset, cpu, what might be difficult to get a hold of.
It is about time big companys arop making it difficult for customers, right to the repair should be easy.
oh no...
If only they had a ground pin between the cpu data line and the backlight voltage....
How many chuggas before a 13" MacBook CPU eats 12V? 🤔
1 drop is enough if it drops into the right(wrong) spot, and macbook's keyboard have holes for air to go through for cooling, air can go through, so is water. Perfect planned obsolence
Sounds typical dang twitch to me waste of time space and energy thats twitch
How do you keep the screws on the screw driver like that. I get them all over the place if I do that..
with a magnet
Chip go boom!
sorry for not understanding, but would replacing the cpu not bet an option
Replacing the CPU is a high-skill process (because it is soldered on, not socketed), requiring the use of a very specialized machine, and you have to FIND a known-good CPU to replace it with.
And after all that, you get to hope that the heat of putting the new one on didn't harm it, there was nothing else wrong with the inner layers of the board, and Apple's software actually lets the computer recognize and use the new CPU.
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So high repair cost, and with Apple blocking component sales and repair in general, it might not even work when done.
@@MonkeyJedi99 👍👍👍👍
Questions for anyone really. If I want to see those buck convertor peaks and valleys on a board which cheap oscilloscope can I use and learn with? Output or gate. Under $100.
Audio out of sync a bit, on LRBY and UA-cam
I knew that a macbook usually has bugs :-D (10:35)
How do you feel about fixing airpods maxs?
Choo choooooo!
I get a lot of cat hair, beard hair, and beard dandruff in my keyboard, that's about it; no food, no bugs, no fluid, and just a little dust inside my PC case.
Is there one usual cause for liquid damage?
Don't say liquid... Don't say liquid... Don't say liquid...
The common factor is... APPLE!
Common factor is scummy people that don’t know how to take care of their shit, and then think we can fix it for them lol. It’s simple, keep liquids away from all devices…
Spilling soda, tea, coffee or some shit on the machine
For Apple products? $4 bottles of water, Starbucks, weird "milk", and sodas sweetened with stevia.
Like with most spills, bad container placement, not capping between drinks and insufficient attention.
edit: sorry, you asked for one cause. So let's call it human error.
Wow... working on a liquid damaged macBook without gloves... don't forget that could be some special sauce you're getting all over your naked hands... :D
Okay Google, Okay Google..... Okay Google
I AM really affraid my a1286 dies suddenly
Yes!!!! Love Animaniacs!
STOP BUGGING MY GOOGLE!
Leave him alone.
I work at Experimax repair shop and peoples computers are foul
If it blows out the trace will the charge still hit the cpu?
I think it can only blow a trace by having too much current. In other words, it hits the CPU so hard the trace to the cpu burns.
Oh my god that outro was loud
Warcraft 2 ogre sounds... hahaha! But an annoyed sheep was way better. Now, who played this game back in the '90s? :)
Daaaaaamn, this thing is so badly burnt I'd give up right away.
And those bugs! Was that a louse, or what? Will you start wearing a hazmat suit for repairs like these?
2030 MacBook: Includes dedicated chip that serves no other purpose but to to send 300v into the CPU when a random number between 1-8,192 is chosen upon starting the machine. If you try removing or tampering with the chip, the proprietary encrypted SSD will automatically self destruct. Watch them do this 😂
Omicron the new series, starts this Friday at 7:00pm.
19:40 🤣
How do you like a video twice?
My Google home is wondering what you want from it. I’ll have it send you an email…
Listen this is a mystery I've been wondering about since I've started following this channel. HOW THE FUCK do you get insects and all that other grossiness inside your pc? Please explain. I'm a smoker and my keyboard sucks and I should dust off my pc more often, BUT NEVER HAVE I EVER had fucking insects in my hardware!
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Sport!
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How many crypto bots are commenting on this??? have they even think where are they commenting?
Banana
Hhhuuuuuuuuuuuhhhh
Lol, no I’m not afraid of any cold. I grew up I the 80s & 90s, we’re built a lot tougher than the current young generation.