Giveaway : Alkr Laptop Sleeve
Yeah-yeah we know, we’ve featured Alkr numerous times before (six to be exact) but we can’t help it if they keep delivering quality product.
Alkr operates on a simple premise – the sleeves that protect our technological bits and bobs should be built to the same exact standards as those bits and bobs. Primarily this means laptops and iPods. There’s also a secondary premise – the pieces that protect our beloved laptops and iPods should be fun, should cheer you up, and should make travel a bit easier.
Before their inception, Alkr believed there was a definite gap in the market, they didn’t like the products that was made to protect them, it was all a bit..well, dull. Under these ideas, Alkr was founded in early 2009 to change things and brighten up the industry.
With Christmas quickly descending upon us it’s maybe the right time to dropping hints for the stocking fillers, well here’s a new colourway of their popular laptop sleeve in Blue Marlin to feast your eyes on.
As an early present we’re also giving you the opportunity to grab yourself a free one, all we ask you to do is to put down in the comments section the worst gift you’ve received from Santa, the saddest/funniest wins themselves a sleeve – free of charge.
Get involved.
I’ve just written a dead long story about a dvd I once got for Christmas but my inbuilt catholic guilt has stopped me posting it in it’s entirety.
Suffice to say the words Steve and Seagal were involved and I have never found a purpose for the said dvd.
Even now I feel ungrateful. It’s probably a great film.
Or not.
A long long time ago, my old man burst in on me post shower and took a photo (stick with me). I thought nothing of it until 2 christmases ago he presented me with a rather large canvas print of me stood, well bollocko would be the appropriate word. How all my family laughed and laughed and laughed some more.
I burnt it!
Wow, that’s bright. Nice though.
The worst Christmas present I ever received was a ‘knock-off Nigel’ copy of the film S.W.A.T., from the ex’s sister and her husband.
I’d enter, but it would make me look like a really ungrateful little shit. Plus I’ve just posted this up on Facebook and my mother is one of my ‘friends’, so theirs a good chance she might see it/be offended. I could really do with a laptop sleeve though.
My nan gave me a Culture Club mirror one year, I was bang into Iron Maiden at the time (I was about 12). She won’t be reading this as she dies a few years ago. No I didn’t kill her, it was never proved.
The next door neighbour gave me a cassette case key-ring once.
Now I know she didn’t have to give us anything, and I should have been grateful, but it could hold one cassette, had a dodgy belt loop, and was neon pink.
I coloured it in black with a marker pen, then threw it away.
When I was around 8 or 9 my next-door neighbor’s came round and proudly presented me with a christmas gift. I opened it franticly (they had never given me a present before and the prospect of another donor in the christmas free for all was an exciting one) only to be faced with a ruler. Not just any ruler, this one featured a holographic image of a popular (at the time) children’s character called JEM, who’s modern contemporary would I consider to be Hannah Montana. The devastation in my face must have been quite something, I promptly burst into tears and cast it out the door, the very same door my neighbor’s were partially occupying. I was hysterical and they were horrified. My mother retrieved it from the driveway and tried to convince me that all was not lost and it was the thought that counts. I promptly informed her through a snotty nose that it “WAS FOR FUCKING GIRLS!!” and fled up stairs.
Later that day when the dust had settled I was outside playing with my new skateboard when my neighbor approached me to say sorry for giving me a girls present, I apologised for throwing it out the door and as a peace offering I said she could have a go on my skateboard. She was a woman considerable in weight and years but despite this she nervously placed the board on the pavement and pushed off. I approximate that she travelled roughly 10 feet before shooting the deck out from under her feet and landing with a thud that I can still hear today. She was in agony and I could not breathe for laughing so hard. It turned out that she had broken her hip, and (as I later found out) it caused her consistent problems well into the future. I never received another Christmas from them but that will certainly teach her for giving me a fucking girls ruler.
The worse present ive received has got to be a etcha sketch i got off my uncle when i was 13!
The saddest Xmas present I have ever received was a copy of Five Star’s album; Silk and Steel from my then fiancée.
We didn’t stay together too long after that.
Unlike me and my MacBook Pro which is for life.
I came down one christmas morning to find santa pounding my mum from behind. That was the worst present i received.
a leeds united football top
i know
Two left hand gloves and a too small belt off my better half !
christmas 2009, my mum, 75, bought me the 2010 west ham united calender
i’m 40 years old and haven’t been to football for 15 years
“cool, thanks mum” says me, made a bit of a fuss so she’ll be happy
you just know what i’m getting (again) this year, eh
I just turned 27 and someone insisted in offering something, unfortunately it was the Con Air DVD… it’s still in the plastic sleeve.
A girlfriend once bought me a stone-washed denim parka from French Connection, I told her I wished she was dead before I threw it in the Goyt river and got off with five of her friends in the 12 months before we broke up
The worst gift I ever received was a Shakin Stevens lamp shade.
My brother and I were given it one Christmas by our aunt. She wasn’t actually any relation but took it upon herself to bestow herself a title to stop us wondering who this strange woman was who kept buying us crap for Christmas.
Even now I can’t imagine why any manufacturer ever thought to make such an abortion.
I still have nightmares about that bloody Green Door.
Thanks for the entries, but we think Christophers tale was the worst/best.
Well done squire, please email your deats and we’ll fire one out and then send the cover.