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Not my native language but I don't think you can translate Québécois insults to any other language and still make sense:
TABARNAK! = Tabarnacle
CÂLICE!!! = Chalice
and many more
I reserve my right to dislike those guys but I respect that none of that stuff is sexist or racist.
Those in my native language are quite horrible and I won't list them here.
The beauty of these words is their compositionability(?). "Mon hostie de calice de tabarnak m'a t'en crissé une" is a great example of using these words as nouns, adjectives and verbs. They can even be adverbs (calice, calicer, calicement, criss, crisser, crissement, etc.)
On their own they're not really insult though.
Also disliking "those guys" as a generalised statement is a pretty racist statement, ironically.