Desk Jockey Daniel writes:
Look at that thing!
It's like it was lashed together out of a bunch of cheap strollers. Seriously, fold it up, slap a couple fuzzy ducklings on it, and sell it at Babies R Us. And what's with all the tiny platforms at varying altitudes? Are we going for "work area" or "cat condo" here? Infants, kittens, this desk is clearly not inviting productivity into its user's life. Not that kittens aren't amazingly amazing, mind you. Infants are okay too.
I think what disturbs me most about this desk is the fact that it's "mobile". What a sad thing that seems. I envision an overworked housewife drifting from room to room through her cavernous suburban house, in search of a place of her own in which she can finish her online degree in dog show management. But no, the husband, the kids, and the snooty pure bred beagle keep evicting her from every empty corner, so that the locks on her desk's plastic swivel wheels must forever remain open. Keep dreaming, madam, keep dreaming.
Desk Jockey Al writes:
Dear God. This is it, folks. This is the... no. No, I can't even make an amusing metaphor for this. This is just plain awful. There is nothing I can say here that would be even remotely tasteful. OK, well, why not. This is, so far, the Hindenburg of desks.
And what the heck is with the name? Limble? Is that supposed to make us feel like it's a nimble desk or something? To me it just sounds like a name someone made up for a cop drama. "Sergeant Limble! Quick, move your desk, we need to use it to arrest the murderer hiding in the air ducts!"
On to some more technical bits. There's only one positive thing about this sucker, and that would be the price. By far, this is the cheapest desk we've reviewed so far, dropping in at $70- with a $20 instant rebate, which is good. Nobody would have the balls to mail a receipt to another human being actually admitting they bought this desk. Additionally, the site describes this sucker as having bookshelves. Last I checked, bookshelves had backs to keep the books from falling off... you know... because this thing has 6 wheels and isn't even remotely stable? Some of that durable steel frame is going through parts of the main desk, which will probably mean it's annoying as hell to construct.
Oh, and one last bit: you're only limited to purchasing two! My God, what a blow! I'll never recover!
Machismo
DJDaniel: Two words: Fuzzy. Ducklings. Goodbye, machismo. -1-
DJAl: Good luck looking powerful when two of those six wheels lock up, the whole thing falls apart, and you're busily sitting on the floor trying to put it together with an allen wrench and a tiny screwdriver. -1-
Timelessness
DJDaniel: Maybe in ten years some sweaty Japanese civil engineer will use this desk to display his less favored Gundam models. That's about all the chance it's got. ATHRUN!!!! KIRA!!!! -2-
DJAl: Or Akira models. TETSUOOOOOOOOOO! KANEEEEEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAA! -1-
Verve
DJDaniel: You know, I've been mighty unkind in this critique, but I can't deny that the creator of this desk picked a fashion and carried it through all the way to its abominable conclusion. That's a stubbornness of design that I have to respect. Plus the cats will love it. -4-
DJAl: Look, Daniel, we're buds and all, but I rather heartily disagree. Sometimes someone needs to know when to quit. Here I'll insert the obligatory reference to a certain mass-murdering dictator and his penchant for hating on several specific ethnic groups. This is probably the kind of desk his scientists were trying to make right at the end of the war: a secret superweapon aimed at the world's cubicle employees, designed out of sheer spite. -2-
FINAL SCORE = 1.8/10
Oh, the humanity!
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