bigissue mate are a different race altogether.

The "cig mate" variety, come up to you in the street, usually with tracksuit trousers tucked into their socks, and they say
"got a cig mate?"

if they do not ask you this, then it will be one of the following variations:
"can you go into that shop and buy us some cigs mate"
"got 20p for a cig mate?"
"got 10p i can lend mate"

or, they will simply challenge you by saying "starting dick-ed?"

They are definately ones to keep an eye on, be careful out there on the streets of Ull