#colin fleming

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While I'm at old videos - who remembers this one? Because racing drivers are totally serious, haha. Yeah, they were insane even before tiktoks and instagrams. (Scott Speed and Colin Fleming)

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make the type of connection humans always need to remain tethered to the truth

Now more than ever, as people put on smiles for their followers on Facebook or Instagram, we expend a lot of effort playing a part. Although we are more “connected,” we close ourselves off to others. We fear looking weak, so we flash out an emotional Morse code: “All is well, all is well.”

The result is that many people go on playacting. They never take a seat at life’s bar, look over the wood to an honest peer, and make the type of connection humans always need to remain tethered to the truth. Without the perspective that the counsel of friends can provide, or even just the contrast of our lives against theirs, we end up going down our private rabbit holes alone.

Opening up about your problems can be scary, but you need give only the gist. Remember that when you share what you are grappling with, you command respect, rather than lose it. You foster hope in yourself and in someone else. Living this way is easier, too, since you don’t have to invent any stories or go through the effort of maintaining a pose.

Just open your mouth and say the thing you’ve been thinking for the past three hours. You can see it as daring to take a risk, but it’s really good-natured, honest conversation. I call it connection: the only chance in this world each of us has to be a real person.

~ Colin Fleming, “Don’t Clam Up When Life Brings You Down” (WSJ · August 10, 2018)

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Colin Fleming (ENG)

English tennis player, Colin Fleming, had his page in the brieflines archive updated this morning with three new photos.

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Colin Fleming (ENG)

Three new photos of English tennis player, Colin Fleming, were added to his page in the brieflines archive today.

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Travel 2004 - Macau (How to Get to Fisherman's Bend)

Travel 2004 – Macau (How to Get to Fisherman’s Bend)

Friday, 19th November 2004 – Macau, Day 6 (How to Get to Fisherman’s Bend) I learned a few things over the last few days in Macau, the most bizarre one being that it is possible to get to the photographers’ stand at Fisherman’s Bend. The reason I’d had doubts was because the time Andrea tried it (two years ago), she simply couldn’t get there. She tried various Macanese cab drivers, but none of…

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Thursday, 18th November 2004 – Macau, Day 5

We got the early start we wanted and were set up in the press office by 9.15. That left me enough time to catch the slowest Media Shuttle in the World out to the Melco Hairpin.

I particularly like Melco, because it’s very hard to get round there if you don’t know what you’re doing, and also because the photographers’ stand is close enough that you can see the whites of the drivers’ eyes as they go through there (to be honest you could reach out and rap ’em on the helmet if you really wanted to, though the official information pack tells us that if anyone leans over the barriers, they will close that part of the track to everyone for the rest of the meeting).

Anyway, having finally got there I walked round the corner to find the marshals doing their infamous dance with brooms, shovels, and buckets full of cement dust trying to clean up the oil left behind by the local tintop drivers, who are pretty hopeless as ever.

The F3 session finally got underway, and almost as immediately came to a grinding halt again when the bulk of the field arrived behind Robert Kubica, and the gangly Pole got it all wrong, stuck the nose of his car into the outside of the barriers, and caused a 30-car traffic jam. It was useful, because it allowed me to photograph pretty well everyone with the minimum of effort, but he looked a bit stupid by the time he was sent on his way again.

And then a lap later Nelson Piquet Junior pulled the same stunt, and never seemed to get it right after that. Melco appears to have got him completely spooked now, and my suspicion is he’ll not do at all well this weekend. Fabio Carbone was fastest, but he’s two seconds slower than his pole position time from last year, though he’s still over half a second ahead of second placed man, Richard Antinucci. Lewis Hamilton was a very smooth looking third, and Kubica was fourth despite his off. Nico Rosberg was looking good too, and was fifth.

First official qualifying is about to start, slightly delayed by a rain of Formula Renaults, a session that had to be stopped twice in 25 minutes after large numbers of local runners attacked bits of scenery all over the place and left Tatuus spares everywhere. Scott Speed is on pole, 0.003 seconds faster than Colin Fleming, which is annoying, but as it’s only untimed, we’ll have to see what happens later.

Oh, and on an additional note, as the Euroseries F3 guy, Kay Langendorff, is here, we’re translating German to English again for him, so we are actually getting paid to be here. Yes! A result!

Travel 2004 – Macau, Day 5 Thursday, 18th November 2004 - Macau, Day 5 We got the early start we wanted and were set up in the press office by 9.15.

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#NowFunding: Irish short contemporary western Sons and Broken Noses

Now funding on IndieGoGo is Sons and Broken Noses, an Irish based, contemporary western, directed by Colin Fleming and Nigel O’Brien from an award-winning script by Damien Aulsberry.

Sons and Broken Nosesstars well-known Irish comedians and actors Eric Lalor and Jason Byrne, who play Jake and Sean, two down on their luck bank robbers whose day is about to get a whole lot worse. The dark comedic…

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Colin Fleming (GBR)

Three new photos of Colin Fleming, the British tennis player, were added to his page in the brieflines archive this morning. Enjoy!