Chemical bonds are classified according to their strength
there's the weak hydrogen bond, labile
between two atoms which are very different from each other
there's the coordinate bond, where one of the two atoms gives and the other receives
the ionic bond, an attraction which is intense and inescapable between opposite poles, negative and positive
And then there's the covalent bond where two atoms share their most precious attribute
and which represents the strongest bond to be found in Nature.
CHAIN REACTIONS
Bonds
- Silvia, hold on - What is it?
Are you sure there's no-one in? It's usually always so crowded round here
Positive. My brother owes me a favour so he's got the girls for the day
and on Thursdays Olga teaches Cyrillic writing at the U3A.
- Great! - Yeah! Alone at last!
No, I meant that's really interesting. I've always wanted to learn how to write Cyrillic.
Really gross!
Was that a joint she had in her hand?
I'd say that's gonna be the least of your worries right now
And here she is, the last but not least of my worries
Hi Mum, how are you?
Forget how I am, have you called Alessia to apologise?
Err... well, not really... I tried, but...
For heaven's sake, Silvia, you're always the same
If you don't call her by tonight I'm leaving you out of my will
Oh, Mum!
Don't oh Mum me. Call her NOW!
You're not going already!
Yeah, I'd better be off. You've got a really complicated life, Silvia.
[speaking with thick Russian accent] Silvia! You having face like Russian who just finished all vodka.
I could just do with a bottle right now in fact.
What means? Do you can give me a summary of preceding episodes or otherwise it getting late for dinner.
I went out with that really fit aerial fitter and one thing led to another and we ended up on the sofa
Chiara came in from the balcony where she was having a joint and she caught us at it
and now she's shut herself in her room pissed off with me but it's me who ought to be pissed off with her
and then my mother called and she was pissed off with me 'cos I didn't call Alessia but I tried you know that
and in all this I haven't got the foggiest idea where Emma's got to...
Stop, stop, Silvia, your life is like TV series only one which makes you laughing
Thank you for that Olga. And so what am I supposed to do?
You call pretty capitalist girl, saying sorry
and making so she laugh and so beginning romantic TV series
I now going on balcony and eliminating all traces of drug
- Thanks - Thanks
- I behaved really terribly at the party - No, don't be silly
I thought that game between you and your brother was really funny
Oh, right, so you got what was going on?
Well, yes, of course. It didn't take much.
I used to play silly games like that with my cousins when I was little
Yes, right, when you were little
It's nice still wanting to play games. I've become too serious perhaps.
Well, you're a woman with an important role. It's only normal.
I've had to create this image of being hard and inflexible for my job, so I've got my problems too.
But you've got a good career, haven't you?
Yes, but I'm a woman and that annoys everybody
I'm competent and good at my job but I can read in their eyes what they're thinking.
And what are they thinking?
That I should be at home surrounded by kids and not there breaking their balls.
If you like I can lend you a homophobic teenager and a non-speaking kid
You'd really make a great impression.
That bad, eh?
And what about your job.
Between scratches your brother told me you're a research chemist
Yes, but I'm temporary staff.
Rather than confronting gender roles, it's more like we're up against ageism in reverse.
We're young until we're 50 without touching even Botox. It saves quite a bit.
You're really funny.
Nobody really serious would have ever accepted an invitation to go out with me.
Thanks!
Why don't we play a game too?
Ok, I can easily get drunk again but I can't honestly see you scratching your bum here in front of everybody.
No, when I was little, I always used to play that game I like/I hate
Ok, I'll start.
I like eating uncooked tortellini from the packet and I hate...
Kids who run around in restaurants
Right, let's see...
I like froth on beer and I hate...
...people who eat at the cinema.
I hate techno music.
I hate never knowing song titles.
I like elegant summer ballroom dancing evenings.
I like it how all the world around me shuts up when I start thinking about Chemistry.
I like, sometimes, being up in the air with my head but down on the ground with my feet.
I like hoarding all sorts of crap and I hate...
...fashion reports on the news.
I like people who fix things and I hate...
...people who say "really sweet".
I hate people who never say "I'm sorry".
And I like sad, melancholy faces like Buster Keaton's.
And I like those funny awkward ones like Woody Allen's.
I like...
What a stench, not even the food is normal in this house
If you not liking, Skippit!
- It's Skemmy, think you can manage that? - No, I meaning really skip it. There is door.
What are you laughing at? Can't you see they're all mad and pervy round here?
You watching your language little Miss Scruffy.
Here nobody pervy. Mad, perhaps...
Well, for me dykes, lezzies... they're all pervy. It's not normal.
No, not diced lettuce. You scaring your sister.
This evening only potatoes and sprouts.
You know who I'm talking about. That sicko Silvia.
Don't worry, little quite one.
Silvia not sicko. Silvia lesbian and lesbianism is not sickness.
But capitalism, YES!
After certain encounters everything becomes easier.
People get drunk on words and intimacy and then get close up because things need to be seen from close up.
Always.