Beginner Gardening: Please help identifying weed., 0 by cawilliams1983

cawilliams1983 wrote:
This pervasive thing was the bane of my existence last year and now it's back with friends... lots of them! New ones are popping up in this bed and around the corner in the grass.. As you can see, it's a prickly sharp little devil and pulling them, even with goatskin gloves, means injury :( Does anyone have any idea what it is? I was thinking it is some kind of thistle but it doesn't really look like the pictures I've seen.