Well, now I’m just embarrassed. And angry at whoever told me that little “factoid” with such self-assurance that I never thought to check before passing it on!
Umm, thanks for clearing that up 
Because identifying as Scottish isn’t unusual. Identifying as British is. Don’t choose to do something out of the ordinary if you don’t want people asking questions about it. Getting annoyed at things that are your own fault is stupid.
I live close to NYC with a lot of self-identified “Brits.” AFAIK, it is quite common.
Remarkable.
That he can walk and read a teleprompter without making a mistake for six minutes?
While timing his arrival at critical points exactly? You try it sometime. 
I would sure not try it without a director riding on the camera. And you noticed about the first thing he said was to the highlands-weapon-operator, “Shut it!” – not even a Scot could think with one of those things going.
I know. Funnily enough, I am quite aware of the citizenship laws of my own country. But as I said, “I am not a “British Subject””. I was from 1974 to 1983-01-01. Yet I still get people, usually American, telling me that I am. It is most strange.
Pretty much what I would have written.
You can identify with the concept of Free Rutland for all I care, your nationality will still be “British Citizen”, as written on the passport.
(And as a mutt of English/Scottish families believe me, I am well aware of the discussions about self identification).
I’m a he.
There are multiple different types of British Citizenship (Subject, Overseas Citizens and whatnot, not all with right of abode). I am aware of this. However, I was born in the UK to a family that has been in the UK for at least a hundred years (my Dad is having difficulty doing the family tree beyond that, especially on the Northern Irish side as a lot of Catholic records seem to have been destroyed) and as such I am not a British Subject, I am a British Citizen. That’s all I said and you read your own extra shenanigans into it.
Eh? There’s nothing unusual in calling yourself British.
She’s meant to be Irish in Boardwalk Empire and her accent is ok I suppose but I find it irritating and a bit jarring.
As previously mentioned, there are more than one of these ads. One has her and a bunch of other hot ladies walking out of some upper story apartment onto a metal staircase, or something. They say different things.
Should be, since she actually is Scottish. Even had a gag about it in Doctor Who. Her character was living in London area as a child when the Doctor first discovers her. But she speaks with a Scottish accent consistently. He later made some comment about a girl who grew up in London but intentionally retained her Scottish accent.
It does not imply that. It’s the question from an ill-informed person who doesn’t parse the difference between English, British, and Scottish, and where the lines are drawn and who fits in what group. It’s from someone who likely equates British with English, and so wonders why a Scot is self-identifying as British. Saying “that’s what’s on my passport” just leaves them still confused, and regarding you as something of a jerk.
That’s a bit of strangeness I wouldn’t expect most Americans to be able to make sense of. They’ve likely heard the phrase “British subject” and may have gleaned that a Scottish person is British, and thus are merging the two, unaware that apparently there’s some technical distinction between British subjecthood and British citizenship. Not that I’d be one to go dropping phrases like that I didn’t understand. But the point is they think they understand.
This ad campaign just made it into a Cracked.com article:
Awesome. That article pegged what was nagging me about that Dewars commercial. Clare seems downright pissed off through the whole thing, while ranting that somehow being serious will get us in her pants. That, and apparently her pussy-whipped boyfriend will be sleeping in the other room, when he’s not spouting gibberish to wake the neighbors.
Well no, but I hate inaccuracy. 
It’s also like calling us Europeans - it’s technically correct, but it’s just not our primary identity. I’m Scottish, then British, then European, in order of declining importance to my self-description.
(not quite sure where Glaswegian fits in - possibly in a category of its own) 