Proud To Be A Nerd?

I just spent far too long trying to work this out.

The left hand side is fine, I suppose, if you ignore the fact that they forgot to mention what they were integrating with respect to, but the right hand side...?

What does f(u)ⁿ even mean? f(uⁿ) - ok. (f(u))ⁿ - also bearable. fⁿ(u) - just about. What they have? Means nothing to me. Why would you even define a function with those variables if you were relating it to e^x? Why would you write anything even slightly convoluted for what is probably the easiest function to integrate of them all? I spent a long time being worried that it was all supposed to mean something to me before I thought to read the expression rather than try to solve it.

Ah. Then came the kooky message. Sex is fun. It took me this long to work that out.

I hate it when people do this. I get the same urge to stab people when letters from the cyrillic alphabet are used to spell out words in a language they were not intended for. The back-to-front N is not an 'n' sound. The back-to-fron R isn't even a consonant. I hate that people think they're being so incredibly cool and in touch when in actual fact they're just being hideously ignorant. If they had any genuine interest in Russian, or Mathematics, then maybe they would have made the effort to learn a little about either of the two, and in which case they'd know they were walking around with nonsense on their shirt/tatooed on their arse.

It's like the people that walk around with Chinese all over their clothing and skin, acting like it has a zen meaning for them or something. For most people, it's nothing but fashion, and it could just as well say something like "please anally rape me with a pick-axe" for all they're aware.

You know what I think I hate most about this design on CafePress? It's in the nerd section. This particular design came from proudnerd.com which has the slogan BE PROUD TO BE A NERD. WE'LL HELP YOU SHOW IT OFF.

I think I must take this oppurtunity to deplore any nerd wearing this design. The site's slogan on the basis of this design should be rather BE PROUD TO BE AN IGNORANT WANNABE SHEEP PERSON. WE'LL HELP YOU SHOW IT OFF. To top it off, the title of the design is "Integral Fun". It's supposed to be fun to watch the notation of my chosen subject get twisted and emptied of meaning just so some very stupid people can think they look a little cooler? Really? Fuck off.

Why would anyone be proud to be a nerd? Well, my view is that they can be proud to know what they're talking about on certain topics. The idea that fashion could do anything to further that is nothing but ridiculous to me.