Erol Ziya is a founder of CUT. He spent two terms as Press Officer then stood down and is now a Committee Member.
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Welcome Erol. We're standing at a
well-stocked bar. What are you having?
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Cheers. I`ll have a pint of Directors
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How did you get involved in CUT and why?
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One of the reasons I got involved was that I owed it to a small group of my friends that
I had bored to death with my moaning about the state of telecoms to actually do something.
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What is your current occupation (or would be if you could get the job you're
after)?
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I am currently about to open a cafe.
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What is your dream occupation?
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Well that question reminds me of an old moonlighting episode where the office workers chanted 'no work and pay'.
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What's the proudest moment or achievement in your life to date?
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Sounds sad but I don't really have one.
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Do you currently have unmetered calls to the Internet? What do/would
you find them most beneficial for?
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Yes. To stop me from being cut off and isolated from my fellow humans.
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What's the most pointless sport in the world?
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Just about all of them really if you look at them in that way.
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What's the most likely thing to make you laugh?
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Something funny.
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What's the most likely thing to make you get up on your soapbox?
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Injustice and unfairness. Well just about anything actually. I don't need much encouraging.
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Where do you see the Internet being in 5 years time?
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Nearly everywhere, like phones and TVs are today.
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Where do you see the telecommunications industry being in 5 years time?
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In a very powerful position.
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If you were at a dinner party, who would you most like to be sat next
to and why (living or dead)?
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Living - Noam Chomsky. Dead - Albert Einstein.
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What do you read in the bath?
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Not much.
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Does Finnegans Wake by James Joyce make any sense to you?
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No.
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If the UK telecommunications industry was an animal, which one would it be?
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A blind elephant maybe?
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What is the most useful/valued/indispensable piece of technology that you possess?
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Electricity.
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Do you like marzipan?
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Ish.
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If the aims of CUT are realised, would there be anything else you would feel
equally worth campaigning for? If so, what?
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So much and so little time.
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What CDs/LPs/tapes are currently stacked upon/against your Hi-Fi?
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Van Morrison - Moondance, ABC - Lexicon of Love, Aretha Franklin.
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Who is the most underrated band or musical artist in your opinion?
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No opinion on this.
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There's a pile of Smarties of all colours in equal reach. Which do you take first?
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All of them, and quickly!
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A mischievous angel gives you the opportunity to
throw a rotten tomato at anyone or anything in the world every day for a year. Who or what do you choose
and why?
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There are just too many candidates to choose one.
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We have a time machine on standby. It can go forwards or backwards
but it's a one-way trip. Do you want to use it and, if so, where will you go?
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I want to use it, but not now. To go forwards into the future.
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Well, the bar is closing now. We have every method of transport at your
disposal. How would you prefer to get home?
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Beam me up Scotty :)
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