Quote Originally Posted by The Persian Cataphract
At average we're not really that old. Historians tend to write a lot, and in a somewhat more artistically liberated vernacular, so it enhances the idea of some grumpy old moustache-man with a straw-hat and old imperial British safari garb speaking as historians stereotypically do. In 1st of June I'm turning 25, so there you have it, not precisely geriatric, and still very much into booze, broads and bacon.
We share birthdays!