nice - get a cut and not only get exposed to a carcinogen but if you get blood in the gloves your hands will also turn blue

Didn't realise you were in CSI

Ugly they are, aren't they? Just like XT cranks. 

I recall some gloves I had many years ago.  Blue woolen ones they were with blue tassels at the wrists.  Auntie Margerite knitted them.

But I don't generate a thread.

Seems like it's one rule for huge multi-national fishing reel and bike component manufacturers (and, it seems, gloves) and one rule for the man in the street who buys these items.