Most of this time Mr. Jones had spent sitting in the taproom of the Red Lion at Willingdon, complaining to anyone who would listen of the monstrous injustice he had suffered in being turned out of his property by a pack of good-for-nothing animals.
– George Orwell
Animal Farm. Chapter 4. After being thrown off his farm Mr. Jones drowns his sorrow in the pub, complaining to whoever would listen.