Is there a joke here I'm not getting?>>>

Yes. The easiest way to rile a jock (not a hard task in any case) is either to refer to him and where he lives as being part of England or call him "scotch".

David thinks it a joke, Mellen. Most of us would struggle to recognise it as such:)

"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine. "

PG Wodehouse.