You need to first sign up in order to be allowed participation as the section has been recently been re-designated as rated "R" and, not "Family Friendly" so all you have to do is ask Ross for permission in the: "Posts about the Forum" section which is where the Off Topic Bar & Grill used to be... Look for the first thread shown as: 
" Please Sign Up Here for Off-Topic Forum"

Post your request in that thread, and hopefully Ross will let you register so that you can participate in our many interesting discussions. ;)

Respectfully,
Henry

Link for that is:

http://www.aws.org/cgi-bin/mwf/topic_show.pl?tid=21937

Ross
AWS Marketing