I also think heating everything up is the smoothest solution. But to offer an alternative, I’d use dental floss to get in between the bowl and plate. If the bowl has slightly rounded edges (I believe it will), it won’t be too hard to get floss in. With the floss you’ll get inevitably some air in… Which will equalise the pressure and break the vacuum.

As an inferior alternative to floss, fishing line could work for this approach as well.

I’m one of those people that throughout the day sits in about 10 different positions, 8 of those being things that Health & Safety wouldn’t approve of.

But still looking at this is making my back hurt, it’s wild that people would work 8+ hours like this before office ergonomics were a concept.

Also queen, “James, you’re such an Excel queen”. I’ve seen this sort of use many times at my workplace. It doesn’t have anything to do with gender or sexual orientation.

It’s obviously more niche than “dude” but I’ve seen it before.