chris stokel-walker, always good | love, then let's have it. forjoining us. if you'd like to get in touch... don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter — i'm @krupapadhybbc. do stay with bbc news. hello. many of us need rain at the moment, some of us are going to get some over the weekend, but it may well be that southern parts of the uk stay pretty much dry. there is the increasing chance of some rain at times, but not all the time as we move through the weekend at the commonwealth games in birmingham and the west midlands, and that rain bearing cloud has been gathering to the north west of us, this strip of cloud on our earlier satellite image. this is in association with a frontal system starting to push in now from the northwest, bringing cloud and rain through the evening across northern ireland into scotland. the odd heavy burst over high ground in the west, rain too into north west england and north wales, and it will be turning really misty and murky with some hill and coastalfog across many of these north

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joining me now is technology journalist chris stokel—walker. t a bit like you, to be honest. you could be going to see the minions after this, and just misbehaving a bit. i guess this is what we would call an internet mean, someone just acting silly to try and gain attention. but it has snowballed from there. we saw people posting videos from cinemas of them doing this on tiktok and then suddenly, because of the power of social media, it starts to get picked up and others decide this is fun and they do the same. it is an unusual way of the internet operating, but i suppose the minions themselves, for people who haven't seen it, are an unusual character. they are troublemakers, they are a bit clueless. they are always the butt of the joke, and i suppose this is meant to be taken in that spirit. that is the irony of it, that they are the butt of the joke and these boys and girls are making themselves the but of humour or offence, and maybe aren't doing themselves any favours. but the obvious cry will go up favours. but the obvious cry will go up f

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