At this point, I'm really not sure how serious or how ironic Robin Orton is being. (Although I would sign my name to a notional list of anyone who considered their house to be a home rather than an investment.)

But it does feel as if Poolsneighbour is raining blows on a 'straw man'.

'Put in general terms, the (straw man) fallacy is of dealing with a weaker or distorted version of an argument or position as though it was in fact the full and accurate one. The position itself is then taken to be shown to be flawed even though it has not actually been subject to proper critique at all.

Although the misrepresentations characteristic of straw men can be willful, often they simply reflect how little effort people make to understand their opponents’ points of view. We like the world to be clear cut and simple, made up only of black and white.' Julian Baggini