AIBU to tell the Met Office there's no such name as Henk

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Henk?

Seriously? Thats a made up name if ever there was.

I'm afraid that you are mistaken on that. It is pronounced Henk.
Greetings from the Netherlands.

@QueenofLouisiana
Do you have his contact details, just wanted to chat flights with him😁
I’d love to meet an aging Dutch multimillionaire.

oh there there 😂

I mean being called Henk is less offensive than being a goady pot stirrer online I suppose

I'm afraid that you are mistaken on that. It is pronounced Henk.
Greetings from the Netherlands.

Daft question is that where Hunk comes from ?

It is a name - I've been listening to a podcast called Who Shat On The Floor At My Wedding, and one of the chief suspects is called Henk. The wedding took place on a boat in Amsterdam.

Blimmin forriners coming over ere naming our storms 😡

(/s)

I think every third storm some crank comes onto mumsnet complaining about the storm name. Think they’d be aware of the convention by now

Why don’t you tell us your name OP so we can mock you?

Gerrit and Henk are Dutch names educate yourself FFS

What are you called ? “Susan” or some mad shit like that ?

Are you aware of how ridiculous and bigoted this makes you look?

Oh dear op.
I hope your credit is better with Tesco than with this lot 😉

Personally I get upset when I hear the name Karen taken in vain.

This reminds me of a thread on The Secret Lives of 4 Year Olds show when a poster declared Chaim was the craziest made up modern name they’d ever heard 🤦🏽‍♀️

Gormless is a word that has fallen out of fashion but fits here I think.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henk

So because your English speaking mind doesn’t like it, it’s ‘ridiculous’ what a ridiculous comment!! 🤣

Embarrassed for you op.

Henk Savelberg, the Dutch chef. OP needs to get out more.

You can hardly believe that in 2024 there are still people who think that anything that isn't British is 'made up' and 'ridiculous'.

I think it's named after a Dutch weatherman.
There was an article on PM today about how they names storms.
Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands submit names.

I believe that the original rationale (with hurricanes in the US in the sixties) was to help with insurance claims when there was more than 1 storm close together. People would be clearer about which storm blew their roof off if it had a name

I’ve voted YANBU because I really want you to phone the Met Office up and tell them off!

Aha it was Henk what did it guv!

Besides which, with the regularity storms are arriving, we'll probably need to think about inviting India and China to contribute names soon.