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https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-insults/
Gotta go old-school.
https://iris.haverford.edu/scrinium/files/2016/09/InsultsHandout.pdf
There are thousands of years of insults to draw on.
Just straight up calling someone a public toilet.
Yiddish has insults. Like you can insult people in any language, and then you can insult people in Yiddish.
https://yiddishradioproject.org/exhibits/stutchkoff/curses.php3
Of course you've got your looney toons
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/forum/general-interest/small-media-at-large/106401-
You just can't go wrong reaching back a few decades, centuries, or millenia.
Edit: "More of your conversation would infect my brain." Shakespeare talking abut brainworms in 1297 or whatever.