The stalemate continued to be caused by one of the most thorny of Iraq's problems: the divided city of Kirkuk in the north.
The highly volatile issues to be resolved include the demarcation of the border separating the nations, the status of citizens in each country and, most thorny of all, oil.
The second most-clicked story of the year tackled one of the most thorny of genetics questions: whether and how variations in intelligence can be traced back to variations in genetics.
Its leader Valdemar Tomaševski (that's the Lithuanian spelling contested by some Polish-speakers: he would be Waldemar Tomaszewski in his native Polish) has hinted that he is prepared to do a deal on the less thorny of these issues.Any new government's room for manoeuvre is limited.
If you follow any journalists on Twitter, you may know that it's considered one of the most gruelling stretches of work in the entire year, but it's also pretty fun (the less thorny of us will admit to that begrudgingly).
By contrasting 4chan with their self-proclaimed enemy, their counter-culture counterparts, we can see that, though demographically they are so similar, the real difference is introduced here — at the thorny of issue of the girlfriend.
