Not Much of a Choice

I was helping my flatmate install the Firefox web browser on her computer the other day when I came across a situation that is really emblematic of the position that New Zealanders often find themselves in. 

Somehow the website "knew" that we were in New Zealand and decided to give us an option for which version of Firefox we wanted to install. The two choices were:

 -Firefox English (US)

 -Firefox English (British)

I looked at the page for a second, trying to understand what it was asking and finally I said to my flatmate, "wow, it looks like you have to choose. Do you want the American version or the British version." She looked up at me and in a somewhat defeated voice complained, "but I don't want either." I looked at the page again and responded apologetically with, "I'm really sorry, but it doesn't look like you have a choice." 

My flatmate thought for a minute and finally said, "I really don't want the American version, but I think it will be a lot better than the British version, so I guess I'll go with America." We clicked on the "Firefox English (US)" button and as we waited for it to download, we Googled how many McDonalds restaurants there were in the world. 32,000.